Web browsing is inefficient for blind web users because of persistent accessibility problems, but the extent of these problems and their practical effects from the perspective of ...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvi...
We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
The amount of information available online has grown enormously over the past decade. Fortunately, computing power, disk capacity, and network bandwidth have also increased dramat...
Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Lawrence Page, Terry ...
It has been a few years since the semantic Web was initiated by W3C, but its status has not been quantitatively measured. It is crucial to understand the status at this early stag...
We discuss learning a profile of user interests for recommending information sources such as Web pages or news articles. We describe the types of information available to determin...