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,...
In this paper we propose a novel method for demographic classification and present an image retrieval system that can retrieve facial images by demographic information that includ...
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
Many web databases can be seen as providing partial and overlapping information about entities in the world. To answer queries effectively, we need to integrate the information ab...
Ravi Gummadi, Anupam Khulbe, Aravind Kalavagattu, ...
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...