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...
Time on task is an important predictor for how much students learn. However, students must be focused on their learning for the time invested to be productive. Unfortunately, stude...
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the...
In this paper, we describe a set of experiments to examine the effect of various attributes of web genre on the automatic identification of the genre of web pages. Four different ...
Lei Dong, Carolyn R. Watters, Jack Duffy, Michael ...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...