Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
In pattern recognition systems, data fusion is an important issue and evidence theory is one such method that has been successful. Many researchers have proposed different rules fo...
Query-oriented summarization aims at extracting an informative summary from a document collection for a given query. It is very useful to help users grasp the main information rel...
Expert search, in which given a query a ranked list of experts instead of documents is returned, has been intensively studied recently due to its importance in facilitating the ne...
Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...