Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
PEIR, the Personal Environmental Impact Report, is a participatory sensing application that uses location data sampled from everyday mobile phones to calculate personalized estima...
Min Mun, Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Nathan Yau, ...
: The basic line of our action is first to use natural language processing to prune the texts and the query, and secondly to use an ontology to expand the queries. Last year The sy...
Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
The search task and the system both affect the demand on cognitive resources during information search. In some situations, the demands may become too high for a person. This arti...