This paper describes the evaluation of ERST, an adaptive system which is designed to improve its users' external representation (ER) selection accuracy on a range of database ...
: Most today's web sources do not provide suitable interfaces for software programs to interact with them. Many researchers have proposed highly effective techniques to addres...
Paula Montoto, Alberto Pan, Juan Raposo, Jos&eacut...
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
A central problem in text-understanding research is the indeterminacy of natural language. Two related issues that arise in confronting this problem are the need to make complex i...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Carl Weir, Timothy W. Finin...
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...