The success of personal information agents depends on their ability to provide task-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, a new algorithm that generates context des...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieving and ranking process. A relevant document must be relevant to the query and contain opinions toward the query. Opinion polarity classific...
Traditionally, statistical machine translation systems have relied on parallel bi-lingual data to train a translation model. While bi-lingual parallel data are expensive to genera...
Matthew G. Snover, Bonnie J. Dorr, Richard M. Schw...
Traditional browsing of large multimedia documents (e.g., video, audio) is primarily sequential. In the absence of an index structure browsing and searching for relevant informatio...