One of the grand challenges of AI is to build systems that learn by reading. The ideal system would construct a rich knowledge base capable of automated reasoning. We have built a...
The RITEL project aims to integrate a spoken language dialogue system and an open-domain information retrieval system in order to enable human users to ask a general question and ...
Readers interested in the context of an event covered in the news such as the dismissal of a lawsuit can benefit from easily finding out about the overall news situation, the lega...
Computing the degree of semantic relatedness of words is a key functionality of many language applications such as search, clustering, and disambiguation. Previous approaches to c...
Kira Radinsky, Eugene Agichtein, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...