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...
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering (QA) system i...
Abstract. We analyze the expected cost of a greedy active learning algorithm. Our analysis extends previous work to a more general setting in which different queries have differe...
We study the notion of regret ratio proposed in [19] to deal with multi-criteria decision making in database systems. The regret minimization query proposed in [19] was shown to h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Ashwin Lall, Atish Das Sarma, K...
In this paper we describe an exploratory study on the use of a structured interviewing evaluation technique with 6 to 8 year old children. The study examines whether children are ...
Arnold P. O. S. Vermeeren, Mathilde M. Bekker, Ils...