This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
This paper investigates how to parse (segment) facial components from face images which may be partially occluded. We propose a novel face parser, which recasts segmentation of fa...
The Dependency Core Calculus (DCC) is an extension of the computational lambda calculus that was designed in order to capture the notion of dependency that arises in information-f...
Abstract. We describe Scusi?, a multi-stage, spoken language interpretation mechanism designed to be part of a robot-mounted dialogue system. Scusi?’s interpretation process maps...
In this work, we develop a binding-time analysis for the logic programming language Mercury. We introduce a precise domain of binding-times, based on the type information available...