This paper describes an approach for smart and physically-based navigation, which aims at supporting effective and intuitive user interactions with 3D geovirtual environments (Geo...
Despite its long history, and a great deal of research producing many useful algorithms and observations, research in cooperative response generation has had little impact on the ...
The interfaces used by the top Web search engines have changed very little since the early days of Web search. These interfaces follow the traditional model of information retriev...
Abstract. Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) offers a logical framework to prevent a user of a database from inadvertently gaining knowledge he is not allowed to know. By modeling t...
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...