Information workers are often involved in multiple tasks and activities that they must perform in parallel or in rapid succession. In consequence, task management itself becomes y...
Internet videos have grown exponentially with the help from video sharing websites. Automatic topic mining is therefore increasingly important for organizing and navigating such l...
Lu Liu, Yong Rui, Lifeng Sun, Bo Yang, Jianwei Zha...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
Knowledge artifacts that have been labeled as ontologies have many different qualities and intended outcomes. This is particularly true of bio-ontologies where high demand has led...