When people make a judgment as to whether a trait describes themselves or not, cognitive structure about the self must play an important role. Cognitive dimensions are a characteristic of such cognitive structure. The present study examined whether a self-referent information processing was mediated by cognitive dimensions of the self. For the purpose, Klein, Loftus, and Burton's task facilitat...

This is the first time that THUIR participates in TREC Genomics Track. We took part in both Ad hoc retrieval task and Categorization task. Based on our retrieval system TMiner, our research in the Ad hoc retrieval task focuses on: (1) Category of organism retrieval strategy; (2) Primary Feature Model; (3) Query Expansion (QE) technology; (4) Result fusion method. Five official runs have been su...

This paper addresses the knowledge criticality question: what knowledge is critical to the focal task and therefore, needs to be retrieved. It argues that knowledge criticality is not an objective construct and that people’s prior task knowledge which consists of two dimensions: knowledge domain and expertise level, as well as social knowledge has an effect on what knowledge they perceive as cr...