This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
A basic question of instruction is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study determining the relative efficacy of different instructional conte...
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...
Abstract. Well known estimation techniques in computational geometry usually deal only with single geometric entities as unknown parameters and do not account for constrained obser...
This paper describes a new scoring algorithm that supports comparison of linguistically annotated data from noisy sources. The new algorithm generalizes the Message Understanding ...
John D. Burger, David D. Palmer, Lynette Hirschman