Information technology is a prominent tool in healthcare management. However, healthcare systems often fall short of addressing concerns about privacy, confidentiality and safety ...
Sensemaking tasks require users to perform complex research behaviors to gather and comprehend information from many sources. Such tasks are common and include, for example, resea...
Although text categorization is a burgeoning area of IR research, readily available test collections in this field are surprisingly scarce. We describe a methodology and system (...
Louisiana State University’s Biomedical Research Center is going through a major expansion in reaching its 5 year strategic plan. With expansion comes an opportunity to “get t...
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...