We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
This paper1 discusses the use of `conversational' or `dialogue games' as a basis for building dialogue systems. We give a tutorial overview of some recent attempts to re...
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
While traditional information extraction systems have been built to answer questions about facts, subjective information extraction systems will answer questions about feelings an...