While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
We describe a system, implemented as a browser extension, that enables users to quickly and easily collect, view, and share personal Web content. Our system employs a novel intera...
Mira Dontcheva, Steven M. Drucker, Geraldine Wade,...
In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...