The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
We study the problem of automatically assigning appropriate music pieces to a picture or, in general, series of pictures. This task, commonly referred to as soundtrack suggestion,...
The increasing proliferation of online shopping and purchasing has naturally led to a growth in the popularity of comparisonshopping search engines, popularly known as "shopb...
Robert S. Garfinkel, Ram D. Gopal, Arvind K. Tripa...