Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Word sense disambiguation is typically phrased as the task of labeling a word in context with the best-fitting sense from a sense inventory such as WordNet. While questions have o...
Temporal information is useful in many NLP applications, such as information extraction, question answering and summarization. In this paper, we present a temporal parser for extra...
: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
The central goal of data stream algorithms is to process massive streams of data using sublinear storage space. Motivated by work in the database community on outsourcing database...