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JASIS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Written versus spoken queries: A qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis
This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from writ...
Fabio Crestani, Heather Du
INTERACT
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Milestones in Time: The Value of Landmarks in Retrieving Information from Personal Stores
: We describe the design and analysis of timeline visualizations for displaying the results of queries on an index of personal content. The visualization was built on top of a pers...
Meredith Ringel, Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais, ...
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Comparison of Language Identification Approaches on Short, Query-Style Texts
In a multi-language Information Retrieval setting, the knowledge about the language of a user query is important for further processing. Hence, we compare the performance of some t...
Thomas Gottron, Nedim Lipka
MM
2006
ACM
153views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
16 years 10 days ago
Buzz: telling compelling stories
This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...
DASFAA
2007
IEEE
173views Database» more  DASFAA 2007»
16 years 22 days ago
Towards Adaptive Information Merging Using Selected XML Fragments
As XML information proliferates on the Web, searching XML information via a search engine is crucial to the experience of both casual and experienced Web users. The returned XML fr...
Ho Lam Lau, Wilfred Ng