This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Documents often contain inherently many concepts reflecting specific and generic aspects. To automatically generate a short summary text of documents on similar topics, it is im...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
We introduce a new method for automatically constructing concept hierarchies where the concept nodes follow a generalization / specialization relation. Starting from a set of conc...
When users access information from text, they engage in strategic fixation, visually scanning the text to focus on regions of interest. However, because speech is both serial and ...