We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
Abstract. The work described in this abstract presents a roadmap towards the creation and specification of a virtual humanoid capable of performing expressive gestures in real tim...