Background: The analysis of gene expression from time series underpins many biological studies. Two basic forms of analysis recur for data of this type: removing inactive (quiet) ...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Paraphrasing van Rijsbergen [37], the time is ripe for another attempt at using natural language processing (NLP) for information retrieval (IR). This paper introduces my disserta...
Prototyping is a technique widely used in many engineering fields. However, in software engineering, its usage is limited to requirement elicitation. Little research has been done ...
Speech communication consists of three steps: production, transmission, and hearing. Every step inevitably involves acoustic distortions due to gender differences, age, microphone...