We have developed a method to identify when a student essay is off-topic, i.e. the essay does not respond to the test question topic. This task is motivated by a real-world problem...
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering system is correct or...
We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
There are several remaining open questions in the area of flow-based anomaly detection, e.g., how to do meaningful evaluations of anomaly detection mechanisms; how to get conclusi...