Abstract. The growing size of electronically available text corpora like companies’ intranets or the WWW has made information access a hot topic within computational linguistics....
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
The field of compressed data structures seeks to achieve fast search time, but using a compressed representation, ideally requiring less space than that occupied by the original i...
This paper presents an approach to designing interactive systems that enables critical performance parameters to be identified and models of performance to be constructed. The met...
William M. Newman, Alex S. Taylor, Christopher R. ...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...