Abstract. The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware handheld devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of locationbased services (LBS) tailored to user l...
: Variation in performances of an Information Retrieval system, which merges results from a number of retrieval schemes possessing equal and unequal weights, is studied in this pap...
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
To understand how and why individuals make use of emerging information assimilation services on the Web as part of their daily routine, we combined video recordings of online acti...
We participated in the CLEF 2001 monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual tasks. Our interests in these tasks are to test the utility of applying Chinese word segmentation algorit...