Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Competitive Intelligence (CI) aims to monitor a firm's external environment for information relevant to its decision-making process. As an excellent information source, the I...
The indexing technique commonly used for long strings, such as genomes, is the suffix tree, which is based on a vertical (intra-path) compaction of the underlying trie structure. ...
This paper proposes a system to facilitate exchange of information by automatically finding experts, competent in answering a given question. Our objective is to provide an onlin...
There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...