Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is...
Eric Bloedorn, Inderjeet Mani, T. Richard MacMilla...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Many important application areas of text classifiers demand high precision and it is common to compare prospective solutions to the performance of Naive Bayes. This baseline is us...