Abstract. Our report describes the results of work in our participation in the IndonesianEnglish question-answering task of the 2006 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
This paper presents a determinacy inference analysis for logic programs. The analysis infers determinacy conditions that, if satisfied by a call, ensures that it computes at most ...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Several population-based methods (with origins in the world of evolutionary strategies and estimation-of-distribution algorithms) for black-box optimization in continuous domains ...