The monumental cost of health care, especially for chronic disease treatment, is quickly becoming unmanageable. This crisis has motivated the drive towards preventative medicine, ...
Darcy A. Davis, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nicholas Blumm, ...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
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...
As semiconductor technology advances, the performance gap between processor and memory has become one of the major issues in computer design. In order to bridge this gap, many met...