We describe the design, implementation, and pilot study for SenseMaker, an interface for information exploration across heterogeneous sources. We propose supporting the contextdri...
The need for evaluating large amounts of topics (queries) makes IR evaluation an uneasy task. In this paper, we study a topic selection problem for IR evaluation. The selection cr...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Co...
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Sighted individuals draw a significant amount of information from signs but this information is denied to the visually impaired. VIDI is an evolving system for detecting and reco...
Piyanuch Silapachote, Allen R. Hanson, Richard S. ...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...