Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
User-centered consultation systems can be viewed as systems with trust in the competence of the user, whereas conventional knowledge systems are often based on some mistrust. By o...
Georg Buscher, Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe, Di...
Abstract. Most users of the WWW want their searches to be effective. Currently, there exists a wide variety of efficient syntactic tools that have can be used for search in the WWW...
Katia Wechsler, Jorge A. Baier, Miguel Nussbaum, R...
This paper introduces a design technique for complex robotic systems called interfaces- rst design. Interfaces- rst design develops information interfaces based on the characteris...
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Stanley A. Schneider, Ro...
In this paper, we present a novel entity coreference algorithm for Semantic Web instances. The key issues include how to locate context information and how to utilize the context ...