This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
A major obstacle to fully integrated deployment of many data mining algorithms is the assumption that data sits in a single table, even though most real-world databases have compl...
Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, Steve Lawrence...
In this paper, we address the problem of vectorization of binary images on irregular isothetic grids. The representation of graphical elements by lines is common in document analys...
Modern software is often constructed using "spiral specification"; i.e. the specification is a dynamic document that is altered by experience with the current version of...