We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
We extend graded modal logic (GML) to a logic that captures the concept of majority. We provide an axiomatization for majority logic, MJL, and sketch soundness and completeness pr...
This article gives an overview of the different functional brain imaging methods, the kinds of questions these methods try to address and some of the questions associated with fun...
We study automata for capturing the transformations in practical natural language processing systems, especially those that translate between human languages. For several variation...
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...