Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
A novel fact extraction task is defined to fill a gap between current information retrieval and information extraction technologies. It is shown that it is possible to extract usef...
Andrew Salway, Liadh Kelly, Inguna Skadina, Gareth...
We propose new methods to exploit contemporaneous text, such as on-line news articles, to improve language models for automatic speech recognition and other natural language proce...
The Sisyphus-I initiative consists of a constraint satisfaction problem in which a group of people in a research environment must be allocated rooms. Numerous constraints are detai...
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...