We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
This article examines the application of two single-document sentence compression techniques to the problem of multi-document summarization—a “parse-and-trim” approach and a...
David M. Zajic, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy J. Lin, Rich...
Modeling human behavior requires vast quantities of accurately labeled training data, but for ubiquitous people-aware applications such data is rarely attainable. Even researchers...
Daniel Peebles, Hong Lu, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem...
Human behavior representation (HBR) is an elusive, yet critical goal for many in the simulation community. Requirement specifications related to HBR often exceed current capabilit...
John C. Giordano, Paul F. Reynolds Jr., David C. B...