The search task and the system both affect the demand on cognitive resources during information search. In some situations, the demands may become too high for a person. This arti...
We demonstrate that regularization can improve feedback in a language modeling framework. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval: Relevance Fee...
Delays on the Web are a persistent and highly publicized problem. Long delays have been shown to reduce information search, but less is known about the impact of more modest
This paper reports on the construction and testing of a new Question Answering (QA) system, implemented as an workflow which builds on several web services developed at the Resear...
Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Tu...
With the growing importance of systems containing arbitrary semistructured relationships, the need for supporting users searching in such repositories has grown. Currently support...
The development of the RDF[2] standard highlights the fact that a great deal of useful information is in the form of semistructured data--objects connected by relations fitting no...
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are uncomfortable w...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
Folksonomies have shown interesting potential for improving information discovery and exploration. Recent folksonomy systems investigate on the use of tag assignments, which combi...
Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause, Matthias...
Both search engine click-through log and social annotation have been utilized as user feedback for search result re-ranking. However, to our best knowledge, no previous study has ...
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Elaine Qing Chang, Lei Ji, Zhen...