We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system named jess. The system evaluates an essay from three features: (1) Rhetoric -- ease of reading, diversity of vocabular...
The paper reports the University of Waterloo participation in the opinion and polarity tasks of the Blog track. The proposed method uses a lexicon built from several linguistic re...
A good dictionary contains not only many entries and a lot of information concerning each one of them, but also adequate means to reveal the stored information. Information access...
Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...