Paraphrasing methods recognize, generate, or extract phrases, sentences, or longer natural language expressions that convey almost the same information. Textual entailment methods...
We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system derives disambiguating querie...
Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki ...
This paper presents a novel beat detector that operates in the Huffman coded domain of a MP3 audio bitstream. We seek to answer two main questions. First, whether it is possible t...
XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
We introduce a proposal to give argumentation capacity to databases. A database is said to have argumentation capacity if it can extract from the information available to it a set ...