As performance gains in automatic speech recognition systems plateau, improvements to existing applications of speech recognition technology seem more likely to come from better u...
When researching new product ideas or filing new patents, inventors need to retrieve all relevant pre-existing know-how and/or to exploit and enforce patents in their technologica...
Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, ...
This paper presents the method for retrieving and summarizing changes in topics from online resources. Users often want to know what are the major changes in their areas of intere...
Web systems suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs of many users. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all'' approac...
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...