Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
A new method for augmenting paper documents with electronic information is described that does not modify the format of the paper document in any way. Applicable to both commercia...
Jonathan J. Hull, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Qifa K...
In this work, we present an extension of CORE [2], a tool for Collaborative Ontology Reuse and Evaluation. The system receives an informal description of a specific semantic domai...
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...