We show how the recognition performance of a speech recognition component in a speech retrieval system affects the retrieval effectiveness. A speech retrieval system facilitates c...
: 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...
d Abstract] Danny Hendler Department of Computer-Science Ben-Gurion University hendlerd@cs.bgu.ac.il Philipp Woelfel Department of Computer-Science University of Calgary woelfel@cp...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...