Most image retrieval systems only allow a fragment of text or an example image as a query. Most users have more complex information needs that are not easily expressed in either of...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Natural language user interfaces to database systems have been studied for several decades now. They have mainly focused on parsing and interpreting natural language queries to ge...
This paper considers dynamic language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast news recognition. Both contemporary newswire texts and in-domain automatic transcripts were exploited...
Being the client's first interface, call centres worldwide contain a huge amount of information of all kind under the form of conversational speech. If accessible, this infor...
Martine Garnier-Rizet, Gilles Adda, Frederik Caill...