Rocchio’s similarity-based relevance feedback algorithm, one of the most important query reformation methods in information retrieval, is essentially an adaptive supervised lear...
Research on linear text segmentation has been an on-going focus in NLP for the last decade, and it has great potential for a wide range of applications such as document summarizati...
Jingbo Zhu, Na Ye, Xinzhi Chang, Wenliang Chen, Be...
In the research project EPOS1 we build a pro-active, contextsensitive support system to aid the user with his knowledge work, which is mostly about searching, reading, creating, an...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
This paper explains two projects dealing with spam recently completed at Iowa State University (ISU). The first project was undertaken by a team composed of members of the campus ...