The current World Wide Web is essentially a network of documents, a continuously evolving information universe. But the potential of internetworking goes far beyond information ac...
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
A serious problem in learning probabilistic models is the presence of hidden variables. These variables are not observed, yet interact with several of the observed variables. Dete...
Our system for the Novelty Track at TREC 2004 looks beyond sentence boundaries as well as within sentences to identify novel, nonduplicative passages. It tries to identify text sp...
Abstract. The traditional overlap between computer science and philosophy centres upon the issue of in what sense a computer may be said to think. A lesser known issue of potential...
Ralph Kopperman, Steve Matthews, Homeira Pajoohesh