Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
Through the recent NTCIR workshops, patent retrieval casts many challenging issues to information retrieval community. Unlike newspaper articles, patent documents are very long an...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Jong-Hyeok L...
Intelligence analysts grapple with many challenges, chief among them is the need for software support in storytelling, i.e., automatically ‘connecting the dots’ between dispar...
M. Shahriar Hossain, Patrick Butler, Arnold P. Boe...
This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With...