We present CarmelTC, a novel hybrid text classification approach for automatic essay grading. Our evaluation demonstrates that the hybrid CarmelTC approach outperforms two “bag...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
We will demonstrate a spoken dialogue interface to a Geologist’s Field Assistant that is being developed as part of NASA’s Mobile Agents project. The assistant consists of a r...
We present improvements to a greedy decoding algorithm for statistical machine translation that reduce its time complexity from at least cubic ( ¢¡¤£¦¥¨§ when applied na...
We introduce two probabilistic models that can be used to identify elementary discourse units and build sentence-level discourse parse trees. The models use syntactic and lexical ...