Boris Katz

Publication List Details

Period

1910 - 2009

Number

105

Co-Authors

Question Answering Experiments and Resources (2009)

Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Sue Felshin, Daniel Loreto, Ben Lu, Federico Mora, ...

Answering track (Voorhees, 2006) explored the effects of new document retrieval and duplicate removal strategies for ‘list ’ and

Answering (2008)

Boris Katz, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fern, Wesley Hildebr, Roni Katzir, ...

multiple questions on a topic from heterogeneous resources

Duplicate Removal for Candidate Answer Sentences (2008)

Yuan Shen, Gabriel Zaccak, Boris Katz, Yuan Luo, Ozlem Uzuner

In this paper, we describe the duplicate removal component of Infolab’s 1 question answering system that contributed to CSAIL’s entry of TREC-15 2 Question Answering track. The goal of the...

Improving the Precision of Information Retrieval Systems Using Syntactic Relations (2008)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin

The Problem: Traditional information retrieval systems based on the “bag-of-words ” paradigm cannot capture the semantic content of documents. While these systems arerelatively robust and have...

Chapter 12 Answering Questions about Moving Objects in Videos (2008)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Chris Stauffer, Eric Grimson

Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunities and challenges...

Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System ∗ (2008)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik, ...

The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START’s sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of mechanisms to help it...

Building a reusable test collection for question answering (2008)

Jimmy Lin, Boris Katz

In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to directly answer...

Chapter 17 Viewing the Web as a Virtual Database for Question Answering (2008)

Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton

Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of intuitive information access methods and the paucity of uniform structure make finding the right knowledge...

Answering (2008)

Boris Katz, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fern, Wesley Hildebr, Roni Katzir, ...

multiple questions on a topic from heterogeneous resources

Recognizing Text Similarity (2008)

Ozlem Uzuner, All Davis, Boris Katz

Overview: There are a variety of circumstances under which it would be useful to determine that two documents contain similar text, including detecting plagiarism and copyright infringement, and...

Non-Verbatim Copyright Infringement Detection for Text (2008)

Ozlem Uzuner, Boris Katz

The Problem: Copyright infringement is a serious problem which threatened authors of creative works even in the non-electronic world. In the electronic world, easy access to electronic documents and...

Word Sense Disambiguation For Information Retrieval (2008)

Boris Katz, Ozlem Uzuner, Deniz Yuret

The Problem: Despite the increasing importance of Information Retrieval (IR) systems as data retrieval tools, the performance of most of these systems has not yet reached a satisfactory level. Word...

Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System # (2007)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik, ...

The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of mechanisms to help it...

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Boris Katz, Ali Ibrahim, Ali Ibrahim

Synonymy in word and expression is a problem in many natural language analysis tasks. While single word resources for synonymy exist such as thesauri and Wordnet, there are few resources for multiple...

Abstract Blitz: A Preprocessor for Detecting Context-Independent Linguistic Structures 1 (2007)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik

The flow of natural language is often broken by constructions which are difficult to analyze with conventional linguistic parsers. To handle these constructions, which include numbers, dates,...

2 An Efficient Representation for Multi-Application Accessible Visual Information (2007)

Alton Jerome Mcfarland, Boris Katz

As computers become more and more pervasive in our society, one of the problems that arises is how to efficiently integrate different types of systems and the information that they collect. Through...

LEARNING PHYSICAl, I)ESCRIPTIONS FROM FUNCTIONAL DEFINITIONS, EXAMPLES, AND PRECEDENTS (2007)

Patrick H. Winston, Boris Katz, Michael Lowryt

It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like. It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use fimctional descriptions to...

built at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Available on the World Wide Web since December (2007)

Boris Katz

multi-media information in response to questions formulated in English. Over the last 3 years, the START Server answered hundreds of thousands of questions from users all over the world. The START...

Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System ∗ (2007)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik, ...

The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START’s sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of mechanisms to help it...

Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System # (2007)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik, ...

The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of mechanisms to help it...

PARSING AND GENERATING ENGLISIt USING COMMUTATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS (2007)

Boris Katz, Patrick H. Winston

ABS'FI1.ACT: This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from EngiJsh into semantic net relatiohs and from semantic net relations back into English. The parser...

LEARNING!'HYSICAI. I)ESCRIPTIONS FROM FUNCTIONAl_, DEFINITIONS, EXAMPLES, AND PRECEDENTS (2007)

Patrick H. Winston, Boris Katz, Michael Lowryt

It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like, It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use functional descriptions to...

Better Public Policy through Natural Language Information Access (2007)

Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy J. Lin, Ozlem Uzuner

Federal agencies implement laws passed by the Congress by creating rules and regulations that can be applied in practice. During this process, staffs at the various agencies may review past and...

Extracting Structural Paraphrases from Aligned Monolingual Corpora (2007)

Ibrahim, Ali, Katz, Boris, Lin, Jimmy

We present an approach for automatically learning paraphrases from aligned monolingual corpora. Our algorithm works by generalizing the syntactic paths between corresponding anchors in aligned...

Simplemente hablando: interacción del lenguaje natural en la automatización industrial (2007)

Jaliff, Juan S., Johansson, Morgan, Katz, Boris, Borchardt, Gary, Larsson, Magnus

Para encontrar información en una biblioteca pública, el lector puede buscar de varias formas el estante correcto. Por ejemplo, puede consultar el índice de clasificación de la biblioteca. Si la...

Extracting Answers from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques (2006)

Lin, Jimmy, Fernandes, Aaron, Katz, Boris, Marton, Gregory, Tellex, Stefanie

Aranea is a question answering system that extracts answers from the World Wide Web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques. Knowledge annotation, which utilizes semistructured...

Using Semantic Overlap Scoring in Answering TREC Relationship Questions (2006)

Gregory Marton, Boris Katz

A first step in answering complex questions, such as those in the “Relationship ” task of the Text REtrieval Conference’s Question Answering track (TREC/QA), is finding passages likely to...

Lexical Chains and Sliding Locality Windows in Content-based Text Similarity Detection (2005)

Nahnsen, Thade, Uzuner, Ozlem, Katz, Boris

We present a system to determine content similarity of documents. More specifically, our goal is to identify book chapters that are translations of the same original chapter; this task requires...

Lexical Chains and Sliding Locality Windows in Content-based Text Similarity Detection (2005)

Nahnsen, Thade, Uzuner, Ozlem, Katz, Boris

We present a system to determine content similarity of documents. More specifically, our goal is to identify book chapters that are translations of the same original chapter; this task requires...

Using Syntactic Information to Identify Plagiarism (2005)

Özlem Uzuner, Boris Katz, Thade Nahnsen

Using keyword overlaps to identify plagiarism can result in many false negatives and positives: substitution of synonyms for each other reduces the similarity between works, making it difficult to...

A Comparative Study of Language Models for Book and Author Recognition (2005)

Özlem Uzuner, Boris Katz

Linguistic information can help improve evaluation of similarity between documents; however, the kind of linguistic information to be used depends on the task. In this paper, we show that...

External Knowledge Sources for Question Answering (2005)

Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Gary Borchardt, Alexis Brownell, Sue Felshin, Daniel Loreto, ...

MIT CSAIL's entries for the TREC Question Answering track (Voorhees, 2005) focused on incorporating external general-knowledge sources into the question answering process. We also explored the...

Answering definitional questions before they are asked (2004)

Aaron D. Fernandes, Boris Katz, Aaron D. Fernandes

Most question answering systems narrow down their search space by issuing a boolean IR query on a keyword indexed corpus. This technique often proves futile for definitional questions, because they...

Syntax of the Mandarin and English Verb Phrase (2004)

Jimmy Lin, Boris Katz, Arthur C. Smith, Jimmy Lin

This work presents a theory of linguistic representation that attempts to capture the syntactic structure of verbs and their arguments. My framework is based on the assumption that the proper...

Using empirical methods for evaluating expression and content similarity (2004)

Ozlem Uzuner, All Davis, Boris Katz

Despite lack of any significant quantifiable similarities between documents, people can intuitively compare documents and evaluate their similarity. To understand how people evaluate text similarity,...

Syntax of the Mandarin and English Verb Phrase (2004)

Jimmy Lin, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin

This work presents a theory of linguistic representation that attempts to capture the syntactic structure of verbs and their arguments. My framework is based on the assumption that the proper...

Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources (2004)

Wesley Hildebrandt Boris, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin

Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering---they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nuggets" of...

Using Empirical Methods for Evaluating Expression and Content Similarity (2004)

Ozlem Uzuner, Randall Davis, All Davis, Boris Katz

Despite lack of any significant quantifiable similarities between documents, people can intuitively compare documents and evaluate their similarity. To understand how people evaluate text similarity,...

Answering Multiple Questions on a Topic from Heterogeneous Resources (2004)

Boris Katz, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Wesley Hildebrandt, Roni Katzir, ...

this paper we will call "topics" to dif- ferentiate them from the "focus" (which has been called the "target" of a factoid or list question) of each individual question...

Query Expansion Techniques for Question Answering (2004)

Boris Katz, Matthew W. Bilotti, Matthew W. Bilotti

Query expansion is a technique used to boost performance of a document retrieval engine, such as those commonly found in question answering (QA) systems. Common methods of query expansion for Boolean...

Answering definition questions using multiple knowledge sources (2004)

Wesley Hildebr, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin

Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering—they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant “nuggets” of information...

Integrating Web-based and corpus-based techniques for question answering (2003)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebr, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, ...

MIT CSAIL’s entry to this year’s TREC Question Answering track focused on merging answers mined from the World Wide Web with answers extracted from the AQUAINT corpus of news articles. Our

Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering (2003)

Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fern, Gregory Marton

Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comparison of common...

Nets (2003)

In Surveillance Videos, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Chris Stauffer, Eric Grimson

Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunities and challenges...

The role of context in question answering systems (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, ...

Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user study to investigate the...

Sticky notes for the semantic web (2003)

David R. Karger, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan

Computer-based annotation is increasing in popularity as a mechanism for revising documents and sharing comments over the Internet. One reason behind this surge is that viewpoints, summaries, and...

Question Answering from the Web Using Knowledge Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Stefanie Tellex

{j immylin, adf ernan, boris, gremio, stef ielO}ai. mir. edu Aranea is a question answering system that extracts answers from the World Wide Web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining...

Question answering techniques for the world wide web (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Boris Katz

Question answering systems have become increasingly popular because they deliver users short, succinct answers instead of overloading them with a large number of irrelevant documents. The vast amount...

The role of context in question answering systems (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, ...

Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user study to investigate the...

Selectively using relations to improve precision in question answering (2003)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin

Despite the intuition that linguistically sophisticated techniques should be beneficial to question answering, real gains in performance have yet to be demonstrated empirically in a reliable manner....

The role of context in question answering systems (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, ...

Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user study to investigate the...

Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering (2003)

Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fern, Gregory Marton

Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comparison of common...

What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh Boris, Boris Katz, ...

Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. However, despite recent...

Better Public Policy through Natural Language Information Access (2003)

Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy J. Lin, Ozlem Uzuner

be applied in practice. During this process, staffs at the various agencies may review past and current regulations and receive comments from stakeholders and the public regarding the proposed...

A knowledge acquisition tool for course of action analysis (2003)

Ken Barker, Jim Blythe, Gary Borchardt, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter E. Clark, Paul Cohen, ...

We present the novel application of a general-purpose knowledge-based system, SHAKEN, to the specific task of acquiring knowledge for military Course of Action (COA) analysis. We show how SHAKEN can...

Integrating Web-based and corpus-based techniques for question answering (2003)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebr, Matthew Bilotti, Sue Felshin, ...

MIT CSAIL’s entry in this year’s TREC Question Answering track focused on integrating Web-based techniques with more traditional strategies based on document retrieval and named-entity detection....

Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Stefanie Tellex

Aranea is a question answering system that extracts answers from the World Wide Web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques. Knowledge annotation, which utilizes semistructured...

A knowledge acquisition tool for course of action analysis (2003)

Ken Barker, Jim Blythe, Gary Borchardt, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter E. Clark, Paul Cohen, ...

We present the novel application of a general-purpose knowledge-based system, SHAKEN, to the specific task of acquiring knowledge for military Course of Action (COA) analysis. We show how SHAKEN can...

A knowledge acquisition tool for course of action analysis (2003)

Ken Barker, Jim Blythe, Gary Borchardt, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter E. Clark, Paul Cohen, ...

We present the novel application of a general-purpose knowledge-based system, SHAKEN, to the specific task of acquiring knowledge for military Course of Action (COA) analysis. We show how SHAKEN can...

Extracting Answers from the Web Using (2003)

Knowledge Annotation And, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Stefanie Tellex

Aranea is a question answering system that extracts answers from the World Wide Web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques. Knowledge annotation, which utilizes semistructured...

Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques (2003)

For Question Answering, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebr, Matthew Bilotti, ...

Introduction MIT CSAIL's entry in this year's TREC Question Answering track focused on integrating Web-based techniques with more traditional strategies based on document retrieval and...

What makes a good answer? The role of context in question answering (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, ...

Abstract: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. However,...

The role of context in question answering systems (2003)

Jimmy Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Boris Katz, ...

Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user study to investigate the...

Learning Physical Descriptions from Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents. Revision. (2002)

Winston,Patrick H., Binford,Thomas O., Katz,Boris, Lowry,Michael

It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like. It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use functional descriptions to...

Omnibase: Uniform access to heterogeneous data for question answering (2002)

Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin

Abstract. Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the Web into a...

Natural language annotations for the Semantic Web (2002)

Boris Katz, Dennis Quan

Abstract. Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web is to help users locate, organize, and process information, we strongly believe that it should be grounded in the information access method...

The START multimedia information system: Current technology and future directions (2002)

Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin

To address the problem of information overload in today’s world, we have developed Start, anatural language question answering system that provides users with high-precision multimedia information...

Omnibase: Uniform access to heterogeneous data for question answering (2002)

Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin, Alton Jerome Mcfarl, ...

Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the Web into a...

Natural language annotations for the Semantic Web (2002)

Boris Katz, Dennis Quan

Abstract. Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web is to help users locate, organize, and process information, we strongly believe that it should be grounded in the information access method...

Omnibase: Uniform access to heterogeneous data for question answering (2002)

Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Deniz Yuret, Ali Ibrahim, Jimmy Lin

Abstract. Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge di#cult. A solution is to turn the Web into a...

Annotating the Semantic Web using natural language (2002)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin

Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web is to help users better locate, organize, and process content, we believe that it should be grounded in the information access method humans are most...

The START multimedia information system: Current technology and future directions (2002)

Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin

To address the problem of information overload in today’s world, we have developed Start, anatural language question answering system that provides users with high-precision multimedia information...

Gathering Knowledge for a Question Answering System from Heterogeneous Information Sources (2001)

Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin

Although vast amounts of information are available electronically today, no effective information access mechanism exists to provide humans with convenient information access. A general, opendomain...

Applying semantic relation extraction to information retrieval (2000)

Boris Katz, Edward Loper, Edward Loper

Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering People often want to search a large number of articles, web pages, or other naturallanguage documents to nd the answers to specic questions....

Parsing and Generating English Using Commutative Transformations. (1998)

Katz,Boris, Winston,Patrick H.

This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net relations and from semantic net relations back into English. The parser and Companion...

Exploiting Lexical Regularities in Designing Natural Language Systems. (1998)

Katz, Boris, Levin, Beth

This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic...

Using English for Indexing and Retrieving. (1998)

Katz, Boris

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Hawk: Knowlege Acuisition Starting With Natural Language (1998)

Katz, Boris, Borchardt, Gary, Felshin, Sue

DARPA's Rapid Knowledge Formation program is developing new technology to automate the task of transforming raw human-understandable information into encoded, machine-understandable information. The...

Interactive Planning and Monitoring for the Anchor Desk Associate (1998)

Borchardt, Gary, Katz, Boris, Winston, Patrick

This report describes a technique for collaborative, human-computer accomplishment of planning and monitoring activity in a range of domains. The technique, called split-confirmation, provides for a...

From Language to Knowledge: Starting Hawk (1998)

Katz, Boris, Borchardt, Gary, Felshin, Sue

This report describes work completed by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of DARPA's Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF) program over the period from July 2000 to...

Word-sense Disambiguation Applied to Information Retrieval. M.Eng thesis (1998)

Ozlem Uzuner, Boris Katz

distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis and to grant others the right to do so. Auor Certified by.

Blitz: A preprocessor for detecting context-independent linguistic structures (1998)

Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy Lin, Sue Felshin, Rebecca Schulman, Adnan Ilik

The flow of natural language is often broken by constructions which are di#cult to analyze with conventional linguistic parsers. To handle these constructions, which include numbers, dates,...

Annotating the World Wide Web using natural language (1997)

Boris Katz

multi-media information in response to questions formulated in English. Over the last 3 years, the START Server answered hundreds of thousands of questions from users all over the world. The START...

Using English For Indexing and Retrieving (1988)

Katz, Boris

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Using English For Indexing and Retrieving (1988)

Katz, Boris

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Exploiting Lexical Regularities in Designing Natural Language Systems (1988)

Katz, Boris, Levin, Beth

This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic...

Exploiting Lexical Regularities in Designing Natural Language Systems (1988)

Katz, Boris, Levin, Beth

This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic...

Exploiting lexical regularities in designing natural language systems (1988)

Boris Katz, Boris Katz, Beth Levin, Beth Levin

This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic...

Using English for indexing and retrieving (1988)

Boris Katz

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Using English for indexing and retrieving (1988)

Boris Katz

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Exploiting lexical regularities in designing natural language systems (1988)

Boris Katz, Boris Katz, Beth Levin, Beth Levin

This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic...

Using English for indexing and retrieving (1988)

Boris Katz

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the...

Learning Physical Descriptions from Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents (1982)

Winston, Patrick H., Binford, Thomas O., Katz, Boris, Lowry, Michael

It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like. It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use functional descriptions to...

Learning Physical Descriptions from Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents (1982)

Winston, Patrick H., Binford, Thomas O., Katz, Boris, Lowry, Michael

It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like. It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use functional descriptions to...

Parsing and Generating English Using Commutative Transformations (1982)

Katz, Boris, Winston, Patrick H.

This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net relations and from semantic net relations back into English. The parser and companion...

Parsing and Generating English Using Commutative Transformations (1982)

Katz, Boris, Winston, Patrick H.

This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net relations and from semantic net relations back into English. The parser and companion...

Parsing and generating English using commutative transformations (1982)

Boris Katz, Patrick Winston

ABS'FRACT: This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net rclatiohs and fi'om semantic net relations back into English. The...

Parsing and generating English using commutative transformations (1982)

Boris Katz, Patrick H. Winston

ABSFI.ACT: '[his paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net relatiohs and fi'om semantic net relations back into English. The...

A Three-Step Procedure for Language Generation (1980)

Katz, Boris

This paper outlines a three-step plan for generating English text from any semantic representation by applying a set of syntactic transformations to a collection of kernel sentences. The paper...

A Three-Step Procedure for Language Generation (1980)

Katz, Boris

This paper outlines a three-step plan for generating English text from any semantic representation by applying a set of syntactic transformations to a collection of kernel sentences. The paper...