In the last years, distributed coordinator-free systems, e.g., peerto-peer systems (P2P systems), have attracted much interest among researchers and practitioners. In these system...
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
My dissertation work focuses on the motivation for adopting emergency response technology in community settings. The main purpose of my study is to understand various factors that...
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...