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Publications (3)
cs.DB2003
The Lowell Database Research Self Assessment
Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein +26
A group of senior database researchers gathers every few years to assess the state of database research and to point out problem areas that deserve additional focus. This report su…
cs.IR2019
Answer Interaction in Non-factoid Question Answering Systems
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft +2
Information retrieval systems are evolving from document retrieval to answer retrieval. Web search logs provide large amounts of data about how people interact with ranked lists of…
cs.IR2019
User Intent Prediction in Information-seeking Conversations
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Bruce Croft +3
Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve mu…