The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
Statistical measures of word similarity have application in many areas of natural language processing, such as language modeling and information retrieval. We report a comparative...
The Internet as a medium for communication and information distribution has opened up new opportunities for distance education programs. Not only is the scope of a program, in ter...
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new approach to teaching an introductory simulation course using an interactive CD-ROM titled "Simply Simulation". This metho...