This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift from a data-processing information technology environment without software intell...
A process is described to determine the shot accuracy of an automatic robotic pool playing system. The system comprises a ceiling-mounted gantry robot, a special purpose cue end-e...
Joseph Lam, Fei Long, Gerhard Roth, Michael A. Gre...
Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...