While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
The IDEX system is a prototype of an interactive dynamic Information Extraction (IE) system. A user of the system expresses an information request in the form of a topic descripti...
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
To bridge the gap between the rising information needs of biological and medical researchers and the rapidly growing number of online bioinformatics resources, we have created the...
We describe ongoing work on I2I, a system aimed at fostering opportunistic communication among users viewing or manipulating content on the Web and in productivity applications. U...
Jay Budzik, Shannon Bradshaw, Xiaobin Fu, Kristian...