Large volume public comment campaigns and web portals that encourage the public to customize form letters produce many near-duplicate documents, which increases processing and sto...
Intelligent directory assistance is the ability to retrieve relevant subscriber records in the presence of mismatches between the query and the subscriber record. The challenges a...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
The AI literature contains many definitions of diagnostic reasoning most of which are defined in terms of the logical entailment relation. We use existing work on approximate en...
Computational science is placing new demands on optimization algorithms as the size of data sets and the computational complexity of scientific models continue to increase. As thes...
Travis J. Desell, David P. Anderson, Malik Magdon-...