ContactFinder is an intelligent agent whose approach to assisting users is valuable and innovative in the following four ways. First, ContactFinder operates proactively in reading...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
We give a polynomial-time algorithm to find a shortest contractible cycle (i.e. a closed walk without repeated vertices) in a graph embedded in a surface. This answers a question ...
We propose a web-based computer-assisted tool for diagnosing progress in international negotiation. The system is based on a general linear model. Innovative features of the progr...