In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Time is an important dimension of relevance for a large number of searches, such as over blogs and news archives. So far, research on searching over such collections has largely f...
Wisam Dakka, Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
We present a system that gathers and analyzes online discussion as it relates to consumer products. Weblogs and online message boards provide forums that record the voice of the p...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...
Abstract. This work presents an experimental comparison of intersection algorithms for sorted sequences, including the recent algorithm of Baeza-Yates. This algorithm performs on a...