Question classification by approximating semantics

G Feng, K **ong, Y Tang, A Cui, J Bai, H Li… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
A central task of computational linguistics is to decide if two pieces of texts have similar
meanings. Ideally, this depends on an intuitive notion of semantic distance. While this …

Partial Match Distance: In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff 1926-2009

M Li - … Probability and Friends. Bayesian Prediction and …, 2013‏ - Springer
In this expository article, we discuss a complementary notion of information distance for
partial matches. Information Distance D max (x, y)= max {K (x| y), K (y| x)} measures the …

[PDF][PDF] The information-seeking problem in human-technology interaction

M Alsulami, A Shaikh - International Journal Of Advanced …, 2016‏ - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
In the history of information-seeking, the intention of a query and the posed query have
some level of distance between them. Because human query-responders are innately …

Semi-aural interfaces: Investigating voice-controlled aural flows

R Rohani Ghahari, J George-Palilonis… - Interacting with …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
To support mobile, eyes-free web browsing, users can listen to 'playlists' of web content—
aural flows. Interacting with aural flows, however, requires users to select interface buttons …

[PDF][PDF] Eyes-free interaction with aural user interfaces

R Rohani Ghahari - 2015‏ - scholarworks.iupui.edu
Existing web applications force users to focus their visual attentions on mobile devices,
while browsing content and services on the go (eg, while walking or driving). To support …

[PDF][PDF] Breaking the barrier of internet information acquisition: question answering systems for smartphone; final technical report

X Zhu, M Li, Y Hao - 2015‏ - idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org
This project aims to overcome language and technology barriers to acquiring information
through the Internet. We intend to invent new techniques to simplify internet search …

[كتاب][B] Eyes-free interaction with aural user interfaces

RR Ghahari - 2015‏ - search.proquest.com
Existing web applications force users to focus their visual attentions on mobile devices,
while browsing content and services on the go (eg, while walking or driving). To support …

A Semantic Distance of Natural Language Queries Based on Question-Answer Pairs

K **ong - 2014‏ - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been applied in the field of
Question Answering (QA) for understanding natural language queries. Practical QA systems …