When we want information on current events, we often view news programs on TV or news streams on Web sites. A news video stream consists of several scenes, and viewers often gain ...
Personal information management (PIM) is an important and hard research problem. Previous systems suffer inflexibility because of strict hierarchies and immobility. I present an a...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Automatic text classification (TC) is essential for information sharing and management. Its ideal goals are to achieve high-quality TC: (1) accepting almost all documents that sho...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...