This paper addresses the problem of deciding effectively whether to interrupt a teammate who may have information that is valuable for solving a collaborative scheduling problem. ...
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
A query routing broker is a software agent that determines from a large set of accessing information sources the ones most relevant to a user's information need. As the numbe...
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...