Information retrieval needs to match relevant texts with a given query. Selecting appropriate parts is useful when documents are long, and only portions are interesting to the user...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the design and development of personal information assistant (PIA), a system aiming to meet individual needs of the searchers. The system'...
The How-To has recently emerged as a genre of online content that describes how something is done. This study focuses on computer and electronics hobbyists and their use of How-Tos...
Cristen Torrey, David W. McDonald, Bill N. Schilit...
The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...