Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
The huge amount of the available information in the Web creates the need of effective information extraction systems that are able to produce metadata that satisfy user's inf...
The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)1 is a database of interlinear text "snippets", harvested mostly from scholarly documents posted to the Web. Although large...
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...