The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
We present a novel system for notification management and report results from two studies testing its performance and impact. The system uses statistical models to realize defer-t...
A recently proposed approach to address privacy concerns in storing web search querylogs is bundling logs of multiple users together. In this work we investigate privacy leaks tha...
If Kolmogorov complexity [25] measures information in one object and Information Distance [4, 23, 24, 42] measures information shared by two objects, how do we measure information...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...