This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
Links between web sites can be seen as evidence of a type of emergent collaboration among web site authors. We report here on an empirical investigation into emergent collaboratio...
Sponsored search systems are tasked with matching queries to relevant advertisements. The current state-of-the-art matching algorithms expand the user's query using a variety...
Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Knowledge organization systems (KOS), like thesauri and other controlled vocabularies, are used to provide subject access to information systems across the web. Due to the heterog...
Boris Lauser, Gudrun Johannsen, Caterina Caracciol...