Faceted search is becoming a popular method to allow users to interactively search and navigate complex information spaces. A faceted search system presents users with keyvalue me...
Middle and high-school science teachers have traditionally introduced current events in the classroom to leverage news topics relevant to the curriculum, such as the Sumatra Tsuna...
Abstract. Semantic similarity measurement gained attention as a methodology for ontology-based information retrieval within GIScience over the last years. Several theories explain ...
In this paper, we report on our experience with the creation of an automated, human-assisted process to extract metadata from documents in a large (>100,000), dynamically growi...
Jianfeng Tang, Kurt Maly, Steven J. Zeil, Mohammad...
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...