Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expos...
The goal of the TREC 2001 Interactive Track was to carry out observational experiments of Web-based searching to develop hypotheses for experiments in subsequent years. Each parti...
Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the web from a source of information to a platform. Network advances have permitted users to migrate from desktop applications to so-called Ric...
Priya Nagpurkar, William Horn, U. Gopalakrishnan, ...
We apply statistical machine translation (SMT) tools to generate novel paraphrases of input sentences in the same language. The system is trained on large volumes of sentence pair...
In this paper we present an approach to recognition confidence scoring and a set of techniques for integrating confidence scores into the understanding and dialogue components of ...
Timothy J. Hazen, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifro...