Organizations today collect and store large amounts of data in various formats and locations. However they are sometimes required to locate all instances of a certain type of data....
In discriminative training, such as Maximum Mutual Information Estimation (MMIE) training, a word lattice is usually used as a compact representation of many different sentence hy...
In robotics, the idea of human and robot interaction is receiving a lot of attention lately. In this paper, we describe a multi-modal system for generating a map of the environment...
Taxonomic case-based reasoning is a conversational casebased reasoning methodology that employs feature subsumption taxonomies for incremental case retrieval. Although this approa...
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...