Non-uniform query languages make searching over heterogeneous information sources difficult. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end lang...
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...
Question Answering systems are systems that enable the user to ask questions in natural language and to also receive an answer in natural language. Most existing systems, however,...
This paper studies the influence of n-gram language models in the recognition of sung phonemes and words. We train uni-, bi-, and trigram language models for phonemes and bi- and...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...