The University of Maryland participated in the English and Czech tasks. For English, one monolingual run using only fields based on fully automatic transcription (the required con...
This paper presents the results of our initial experiments in the monolingual English, Spanish and Portuguese tasks and the Bilingual Spanish English, Spanish Portuguese, Englis...
We present a novel approach to developing interfaces for multi-application dialogue systems. The targeted interfaces allow transparent switching between a large number of applicati...
Trung H. Bui, Job Zwiers, Anton Nijholt, Mannes Po...
This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...
It has been known that using different representations of either queries or documents, or different retrieval techniques retrieves different sets of documents. Recent work suggest...