We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
This paper advocates a rigorously formal and compositional style for obtaining key performance and/or interface metrics of systems with real-time constraints. We propose a hierarc...
Alena Simalatsar, Yusi Ramadian, Kai Lampka, Simon...
The Rich News system, that can automatically annotate radio and television news with the aid of resources retrieved from the World Wide Web, is described. Automatic speech recogni...
Mike Dowman, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, B...
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
An improved prototype of the “voiscape” voice communication medium has been developed and subjectively evaluated. Voiscape enables natural and seamless voice communication by ...