Students in introductory programming classes often articulate their questions and information needs incompletely. Consequently, the automatic classification of student questions to...
Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Information Retrieval has always been an interesting and challenging research area. Despite the high expectations, most of the results indica...
The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...
We present a novel indexing schema that provides efficient nearest-neighbor queries in multimedia databases consisting of objects described by multiple feature vectors. The bene...
Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...