In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
NPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long as the ...
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
Techniques that were developed for program synthesis are being applied to allow multiple agents to communicate with each other and cooperate to solve a single problem. We illustrat...
Richard J. Waldinger, Peter Jarvis, Jennifer L. Du...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.