Generative parallel design patterns is a proven technique to improve the productivity of parallel program development. However many of the generative design-pattern systems are de...
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
When a novice needs help, often the best solution is to find a human expert who is capable of answering the novice’s questions. But often, novices have difficulty characterizing...
A sequence is said to be k-automatic if the nth term of this sequence is generated by a finite state machine with n in base k as input. Regular sequences were first defined by ...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...