Typically, users submit very simple search queries to digital document data collections. Often these queries can result in extremely broad answers or answers in which document rel...
The Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence is an established method for combining different sources of information. In this paper we explore ways to improve the combination performanc...
For the first interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, the Maryland team focused on comparison of term-for-term gloss translation with full machine translation for the documen...
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
Shape matrices have been used as a representation of planar shapes like industrial parts or printed characters. In this paper, we investigate the use of shape matrices as a mixed ...
Robert Sabourin, Jean-Pierre Drouhard, Etienne Sum...