Difficulties with Web based full text information retrieval (IR) systems include spurious
matches, manually intensive document sifting, and the absence of communication or …

In this paper, we explain a user centered approach to collaborative information retrieval
where the focus is not only on the system but on the users' interactions in solving an …

Provisioning goal specific information to the team enhances efficiency of the team. Context
awareness is very important to provide such relevant information. We propose a context …

Collaboration has been identified as an important aspect in information seeking. People
meet to discuss and share ideas and through this interaction an information need is quite …

The World Wide Web is a rich annotation system which allows people to relate to documents
and sites from different perspectives. People describe, comment, relate or mock other Web …

The Annotated Egret Navigator (AEN) is a system designed to support strong collaboration
among a group as they cooperatively build, review, revise, and improve a structured …

Relationships that link static documents discussed during meetings to the corresponding
speech transcripts can be of various kinds. The most important ones, thematic links …

Scientific research becomes increasingly reliant on collaborative effort among multiple
institutions and interdisciplinary consortia, through sharing scientific experiments and data …

Scalable information retrieval systems are crucial to meeting the growing volumes of data.
We describe work done to facilitate scalability by reducing duplication, providing integration …

The majority of text retrieval and mining techniques are still based on exact feature (eg
words) matching and unable to incorporate text semantics. Many researchers believe that …