This work-in-progress report presents the groundwork for the design of a user-adaptive web-based e-learning system. A survey and two randomized controlled experiments were carried...
Background: The evaluation of information retrieval techniques has traditionally relied on human judges to determine which documents are relevant to a query and which are not. Thi...
Context-awareness refers to systems that unobtrusively adapt to the environment of their users on the basis of context information, popularly known as contextaware systems. One inh...
Kamran Sheikh, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
We propose a new method for using anaphoric information in Latent Semantic Analysis (lsa), and discuss its application to develop an lsa-based summarizer which achieves a signifi...
Josef Steinberger, Massimo Poesio, Mijail Alexandr...