This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
The importance of effective customer assistance technologies is imperative in today's online marketplace where users are oftentimes overwhelmed by the product choices availab...
John Doody, Edwin Costello, Lorraine McGinty, Barr...
Decision Trees are well known for their training efficiency and their interpretable knowledge representation. They apply a greedy search and a divide-and-conquer approach to learn...
Mingyu Zhong, Michael Georgiopoulos, Georgios C. A...
There exist a number of algorithms that can solve dynamic constraint satisfaction/optimization problems (DynCSPs or DynCOPs). Because of the large variety in the characteristics o...
We propose to improve the efficiency of genetic programming, a method to automatically evolve computer programs. We use graph-based data mining to identify common aspects of highl...
A new sensor network architecture called active sensor network (ASN) is proposed in this paper. By integrating multiple small, sensor network-friendly mobile robots into a traditi...
We are developing systems which play music on synthesized plucked strings instruments idiomatically. The present paper introduces a system focusing on the acoustic guitar. The sys...