Finding just the right example to answer a question can be difficult for CS1 students and teachers. For this to work well there must be an intuitive interface coupled to an approp...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
It has long been observed that database management systems focus on traditional business applications, and that few people use a database management system outside their workplace...
Hector Gonzalez, Alon Y. Halevy, Christian S. Jens...