The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an application called Digital Aristotle that can answer questions on a variety of science topics and provide user and domain appropr...
Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter...
Abstract. We analyze the expected cost of a greedy active learning algorithm. Our analysis extends previous work to a more general setting in which different queries have differe...
This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
Many information sources use multiple modalities, such as textbooks, which contain both text and diagrams. Each captures information that is hard to express in the other, and evid...