As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...
Information retrieval or search plays an important role in a wide range of information management and electronic commerce tasks. In spite of the importance of information retrieva...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Susan T. Dumais, Jean Scholtz,...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as W...
— A key step in validating a proposed idea or system is to evaluate over a suitable data set. However, to this date there have been no useful tools for researchers to understand ...
Meiyu Lu, Srinivas Bangalore, Graham Cormode, Mari...