We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
A digital video library of over 900 hours of video and 18000 stories from The HistoryMakers was used by 266 students, faculty, librarians, and life-long learners interacting with ...
Michael G. Christel, Scott M. Stevens, Bryan Maher...
This paper discusses the problem of knowledge discovery in image databases with particular focus on the issues which arise when absolute ground truth is not available. It is often...
Padhraic Smyth, Michael C. Burl, Usama M. Fayyad, ...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...