4 papers
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro +4
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculate…
Machine Learning of Generic and User-Focused Summarization
Inderjeet Mani, Eric Bloedorn
A key problem in text summarization is finding a salience function which determines what information in the source should be included in the summary. This paper describes the use o…
Machine Learning of User Profiles: Representational Issues
Eric Bloedorn, Inderjeet Mani, T. Richard MacMillan
As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is…
Multi-document Summarization by Graph Search and Matching
Inderjeet Mani, Eric Bloedorn
We describe a new method for summarizing similarities and differences in a pair of related documents using a graph representation for text. Concepts denoted by words, phrases, and…