This paper compares different confidence measures for the results of statistical face recognition systems. The main applications of a confidence measure are rejection of unknown p...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Abstract. Rank aggregation is a pervading operation in IR technology. We hypothesize that the performance of score-based aggregation may be affected by artificial, usually meaningl...
We propose an integrated approach to interactive word-completion for users with linguistic disabilities in which semantic knowledge combines with n-gram probabilities to predict s...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...