Scientists depend on literature search to find prior work that is relevant to their research ideas. We introduce a retrieval model for literature search that incorporates a wide ...
In this paper we investigate a novel and important problem in multi-document summarization, i.e., how to extract an easy-tounderstand English summary for non-native readers. Exist...
Update summarization aims to create a summary over a topic-related multi-document dataset based on the assumption that the user has already read a set of earlier documents of the ...
Dialogue systems for health communication hold out the promise of providing intelligent assistance to patients through natural interfaces that require no training to use. But in o...
James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Nate Blaylock, Do...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...