One of the basic problems of efficiently generating information-seeking dialogue in interactive question answering is to find the topic of an information-seeking question with res...
We present a novel framework for the discovery and representation of general semantic relationships that hold between lexical items. We propose that each such relationship can be ...
We propose the concept of research trails to help web users create and reestablish context across fragmented research processes without requiring them to explicitly structure and ...
This paper presents a hybrid concept hierarchy development technique for web returned documents retrieved by a meta-search engine. The aim of the technique is to separate the init...
Razvan Stefan Bot, Yi-fang Brook Wu, Xin Chen, Qua...
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...