Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Wikipedia provides an interesting amount of text for more than hundred languages. This also includes languages where no reference corpora or other linguistic resources are easily ...
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...
In this paper we present a joint content selection and compression model for single-document summarization. The model operates over a phrase-based representation of the source doc...
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...