A key challenge for mixed-initiative systems is to create a shared understanding of the task between human and agent. To address this challenge, we created a mixed-initiative inte...
John Zimmerman, Kathryn Rivard, Ian Hargraves, Ant...
Temporal Text Mining (TTM) is concerned with discovering temporal patterns in text information collected over time. Since most text information bears some time stamps, TTM has man...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Topic-based text summaries promise to help average users quickly understand a text collection and derive insights. Recent research has shown that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...