Topical blog post retrieval is the task of ranking blog posts with respect to their relevance for a given topic. To improve topical blog post retrieval we incorporate textual cred...
Establishing a clean relationship between a robot’s spatial model and natural language components is a non-trivial task, but is key to designing verbally controlled, navigating s...
Robert J. Ross, Hui Shi, Tillman Vierhuff, Bernd K...
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
The paper describes the design of a generation component for a spoken dialogue system. After discussing three existing models of generation, a model based on new information focus...
In this poster, we describe an experiment exploring the effectiveness of a pen based text input device for use in query construction. Standard TREC queries were written, recognise...