Abstract: In our participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering (QA) track, we focused on three tasks. First, we processed the new blog corpus and converted it to formats which ...
Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khal...
This paper describes the use of machine learning to improve the performance of natural language question answering systems. We present a model for improving story comprehension th...
To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...
We present a series of experiments to demonstrate the validity of Relative Utility (RU) as a measure for evaluating extractive summarizers. RU is applicable in both singledocument...
The intelligent tutoring system AutoTutor uses latent semantic analysis to evaluate student answers to the tutor's questions. By comparing a student's answer to a set of...
Xiangen Hu, Zhiqiang Cai, Max M. Louwerse, Andrew ...