Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
In this paper, we present the AutoCat system for product classification. AutoCat uses a vector space model, modified to consider product attributes unavailable in traditional docu...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Data warehousing is a software infrastructure which supports OLAP applications by providing a collection of tools which allow data extraction and cleaning, data integration and ag...
A Knowledge Worker (KW) uses her computer to perform different tasks for which she gathers and uses information from disparate sources such as the Web and e-mail, and creates new ...