It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the s...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
Traditional research on spelling correction in natural language processing and information retrieval literature mostly relies on pre-defined lexicons to detect spelling errors. Bu...
In many text classification applications, it is appealing to take every document as a string of characters rather than a bag of words. Previous research studies in this area mostl...