Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
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Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz, Pero Subasic, Benjamin R...
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...