Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
The idea of allowing query users to relax their correctness requirements in order to improve performance of a data stream management system (e.g., location-based services and senso...
Reynold Cheng, Benjamin C. M. Kao, Alan Kwan, Suni...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...