Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Forty-eight years ago Maron and Kuhns published their paper, ``On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval" (1960). This was the first paper to present a p...
We perform a survey into the scope and utility of opinion mining in legal Weblogs (a.k.a. blawgs). The number of `blogs' in the legal domain is growing at a rapid pace and ma...
Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the we...