Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Querying the Web today can be a frustrating activity because the results delivered by syntactically oriented search engines often do not match the intentions of the user. The DARP...
Grit Denker, Jerry R. Hobbs, David L. Martin, Srin...