List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
We study dimensionality reduction or feature selection in text document categorization problem. We focus on the first step in building text categorization systems, that is the cho...
A broadcast encryption scheme allows the sender to securely distribute data to a dynamically changing set of users over an insecure channel. One of the most challenging settings fo...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...