Coming at Things Differently

Looking at Things Differently

When retrieving informal text such as blogs, comments, contributions to discussion forums, users often want to uncover different perspectives on a given issue. To help uncover perspectives, we examine the use of query expansion against multiple external corpora. We consider two informal text retrieval tasks: blog post finding and blog finding. We operationalize the idea of uncovering multiple p...

Seeing Things Differently

P Cotton, by Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982), is a work of folk art that captures Rowe’s experiences as an African American woman living in rural Georgia, United States. Nellie Mae Rowe was born on July 4, 1900, as the ninth of ten children. The family lived on a rented farm 20 miles south of Atlanta. Her father, a farmer and blacksmith, was born a slave in 1854; her mother, born the year after Pre...

Ruth Lehmann: Germ cells do things differently

I n most organisms, germ cells are set aside from somatic cells early in development. How are germ cells programmed for their developmental destiny and for germ line–specifi c behaviors such as meiosis? These are questions Ruth Lehmann wants to answer. Working in Drosophila, Lehmann has made many seminal discoveries in the fi eld of developmental biology. Early on, her work on maternal effect g...

Looking at Things Differently: Exploring Perspective Recall for Informal Text Retrieval

When retrieving informal text such as blogs, comments, contributions to discussion forums, users often want to uncover different perspectives on a given issue. To help uncover perspectives, we examine the use of query expansion against multiple external corpora. We consider two informal text retrieval tasks: blog post finding and blog finding. We operationalize the idea of uncovering multiple p...

Why We Do Things Differently: Leaders and Followers?