Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user's needs has recei...
The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
This paper proposes a structured methodology that uses focus group interviews to evaluate Information Visualization techniques and tools. Focus groups are particularly suitable fo...
Our aim of participating in this year’s High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track is to explore the possibility of developing an automated HARD retrieval model by leve...