Text message stream is a newly emerging type of Web data which is produced in enormous
quantities with the popularity of Instant Messaging and Internet Relay Chat. It is beneficial for …

This survey presents an overview of information retrieval, natural language processing and
machine learning research that makes use of forum data, including both discussion forums …

We describe the construction of a generic natural language query interface to an XML
database. Our interface can accept a large class of English sentences as a query, which can …

Online discussion forums provide open workspace allowing learners to share information,
exchange ideas, address problems and discuss on specific themes. But the substantial …

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, websites have evolved from static pages to
dynamic, interactive Web-based applications with the ability to replicate common desktop …

The threaded discussion communities are one of the most common forms of online
communities, which are becoming more and more popular among web users. Everyday a …

The huge amount of knowledge in web communities has motivated the research interests in
threaded discussions. The dynamic nature of threaded discussions poses lots of challenging …

Given a document collection, existing systems allow users to browse the collection or
perform searches that return lists of documents ranked based on their relevance to the user …

Abstract Information retrieval is moving beyond the stage where users simply type one or
more keywords and retrieve a ranked list of documents. In such a scenario users have to go …

Instant Messager and Internet Relay Chat poses interesting and challenging problems for
information technologies. It is beneficial to extract the conversations in this kind of chatting …