Different classes of information system stakeholders depend on different values to be successful. Understanding stakeholders’ value dependencies is critical for developing softw...
Di Wu, Qi Li, Mei He, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Sup...
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...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Agents in the Multilayered Multi Agent Situated System (MMASS) model can perform at-a-distance distance communication by field diffusion over the structure of the environment that...
Many ranking models have been proposed in information retrieval, and recently machine learning techniques have also been applied to ranking model construction. Most of the existin...
Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, H...