During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
Abstract. This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberati...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
Optical scan voting is considered by many to be the most trustworthy option for conducting elections because it provides an independently verifiable record of each voter’s inte...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney S...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
The rising popularity of Web 2.0, such as blogs, forums, online calendars/diaries, etc., makes users more interested in keeping their data on the Web. Sharing of such data could m...