This paper formulates in the first part some requirements for a certain sort of computational argumentation systems, namely those which are designed for a very specific purpose: to...
We investigate the problem of learning a widely-used latent-variable model – the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or “topic” model – using distributed computation, where ...
David Newman, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max...
We will demonstrate the latest version of an ongoing project to create an intelligent procedure assistant for use by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). The syste...
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, James Hieronymus, J...
Our goal is to explore methods for combining structured but incomplete information from dictionaries with the unstructured but more complete information available in corpora for t...
Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...