Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
In the last years the user information seeking process on the Web has shifted from document search to object search. Hence, the answers provided by Web search engines cannot consis...
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...