This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
Paralinguistics organizers such as parenthesis, footnotes, and pop-up fields on screen, should play an important role signalling the writer’s “minimization” intention when se...
This paper presents findings from a study of information behaviour by National Health Service patients which explored motivational triggers for information needs. Previous researc...
The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of available information has made web search a time consuming and complex process. The large num...
Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, A...
Most cooperative work takes place in information-rich environments. However, studies of "information work" tend to focus on the decontextualized access and retrieval pro...