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SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel
AIRS
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Using Verb Dependency Matching in a Reading Comprehension System
In this paper, we describe a reading comprehension system. This system can return a sentence in a given document as the answer to a given question. This system applies bag-of-words...
Kui Xu, Helen Meng
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Bootstrapping Feature-Rich Dependency Parsers with Entropic Priors
One may need to build a statistical parser for a new language, using only a very small labeled treebank together with raw text. We argue that bootstrapping a parser is most promis...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...