Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Currently, there is an increasing effort to provide various personalized services on museum web sites. This paper presents an approach for determining user interests in a museum c...
Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to endusers for both understanding the context of news events and navigat...
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kennet...
Indexing and retrieval of speech content in various forms such as broadcast news, customer care data and on-line media has gained a lot of interest for a wide range of application...
Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jan...