Conversational Case-Based Reasoning (CCBR) provides a mixed-initiative dialog for guiding users to refine their problem descriptions incrementally through a question-answering seq...
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
Previous research has demonstrated the utility of clustering in inducing semantic verb classes from undisambiguated corpus data. We describe a new approach which involves clusteri...
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
Electronic procurement has been widely embraced by governments seeking the administrative efficiencies and cost reductions experienced in the private sector. The enthusiastic resp...