In this paper, we have considered a real world information synthesis task, generation of a fixed length multi document summary which satisfies a specific information need. This...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
The HARD track of TREC 2004 aims to improve the accuracy of information retrieval through the use of three techniques: (1) query metadata that better describes the information nee...
Abstract. The ability to learn from user interaction is an important asset for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Over short times scales, it enables the integration of ...
Hypertext interfaces are considered appropriate for information exploration tasks. The prohibitively expensive link creation effort, however, prevents traditional hypertext interf...