Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
To form a deep understanding of the present; we need to find and engage history. We present an informal history capture and retrieval mechanism for collaborative, earlystage infor...
Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Thomsen, Ethan Phelps-Go...
Revision history provides a rich source of information to improve the understanding of changes made to programs, but it yields only limited insight into how these changes occurred...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...