Abstract Further re¯ections on TREC (2008)
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive ®ndings for IR that follow and the lessons TREC o€ers for IR evaluation. The paper focuses...
Graeme D. Ritchie, Graham J. Russell, Alan W. Black, Stephen G. Pulman, Aravind K. Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, ...
In spite of the title of this book, the authors stress that it "is not a general review of computational work on morphology. " Rather, it describes a specific project to build a...
Re Ballard on the Need for Careful Description 1 (2008)
I think, like the reviewer of Bruce Ballard's previous paper, that he wants the moon. However, as one who has tried, for the purposes of lecturing, to extract con-crete system descriptions with...
Karen Sparck Jones, Julia R. Galliers, Sharon M. Walter
Having matured to the point of utility for certain circumscribed applications, natu-ral language processing (NLP) technology has a growing need for the formulation of evaluation methodologies....
Re Ballard on the Need for Careful Description 1 (2008)
I think, like the reviewer of Bruce Ballard's previous paper, that he wants the moon. However, as one who has tried, for the purposes of lecturing, to extract con-crete system descriptions with...
Johanna D. Moore, Aravind K. Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Alison Cawsey
Moore's book, based on her doctoral thesis, presents her work on the automatic gener-ation of natural language explanations and also gives an excellent summary of previ-ous work in the field....
Bibliography Published Papers by Dragomir R. Radev References (2008)
Dragomir R. Radev, Alfred Aho, Shih-fu Chang, Kathleen Mckeown, Dragomir Radev, James Allan, ...
retrieval and language modeling. SIGIR Forum, 37(1), March
Bibliography Published Papers by Dragomir R. Radev References (2008)
Dragomir R. Radev, Alfred Aho, Shih-fu Chang, Kathleen Mckeown, Dragomir Radev, James Allan, ...
retrieval and language modeling. SIGIR Forum, 37(1), March
Alison Cawsey, Aravind K. Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Sandra Carberry
Cawsey presents an excellent treatment of explanation generation within the context of a system that must describe the working of a complex device. Since such explanations are generally long and...
Edward P. Stabler, Aravind K. Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Robert J. Kuhns, Signicorp Inc
of Theories of Government and Binding describes Stabler's book very well. In it, Stabler introduces techniques and results pertaining to formal logic, develops logical represen-tations of...
Ann Copestake, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper follows from work done under Alvey Project IKBS 019, SERC Grant GR/C/98825. We are grateful to Derek Bridge for his comments. This paper reviews the current state of the art in natural...
USER MODELS ~ DISCOURSE MODELS, AND SOME OTHERS (2007)
My context for this note is natural language interfaces to complex systems, considered, as the aim is system building, from the system's point of view. I hold that the discourse model relates...
Yorick A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, Louise M. Guthrie, Aravind K. Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Mark Y. Liberman, ...
A funny title--I surmise that it will often be misquoted as Electronic Words. Is there a hidden citation behind it? I haven't been able to trace it. 1 Electric Words (henceforth EW, also used to...
Robert Dale, Aravind Joshi, Karen Sparck Jones, Donia Scott
This book describes the author's research on the automatic generation of referring expressions in English. The work is encapsulated in EPICURE, a natural language gen-eration system that...
Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Alison Cawsey, Julia Galliers, Karen Sparck Jones, Glasgow Dr, ...
This work was supported by the UK Tri-Council Initiative on Cognitive
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[5] Suresh Bhavnani, Karen Drabenstott, and Dragomir Radev. Towards a unified framework of IR tasks and strategies. In 2001 ASIST Annual
What’s new about the semantic web? some questions (2004)
It is not completely clear what the Semantic Web (SW) is meant to be. Statements about it differ or, rather, the interpretations of statements about it differ. The grand view is that the SW is the...
Effects of Out of Vocabulary Words in Spoken Document Retrieval (2000)
Philip Woodland, Sue Johnson, S. E. Johnsony, Karen Sparck Jones, Pierre Jourlin, K. Sparck Jonesz
The e ects of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items in spoken document retrieval (SDR) are investigated. Several sets of transcriptions were created for the TREC-8 SDR task using a speech recognition system...
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University (2000)
Sue Johnson, S. E. Johnsony, Karen Sparck Jones, Phil Woodland, Pierre Jourlin, ...
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University on the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The 500 hours of broadcast news audio was filtered using an automatic scheme for detecting...
(DRAFT) Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University (1999)
Sue Johnson, S. E. Johnsony, Karen Sparck Jones, Pierre Jourlin, Philip Woodland
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University on the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The 500 hours of broadcast news audio was filtered using an automatic scheme for detecting...
Automatic summarising: factors and directions (1998)
This position paper suggests that progress with automatic summarising demands a better research methodology and a carefully focussed research strategy. In order to develop effective procedures it is...
TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results (1998)
John Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, Vincent M. Stanford, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper describes the 1997 TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented a first evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech...
(DRAFT) Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-7 at Cambridge University - DRAFT (1998)
Sue Johnson, S. E. Johnsony, Gareth Moore, Karen Sparck Jones, Pierre Jourlin, G. L. Moorey, ...
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University, on the TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The broadcast news audio was transcribed using a 2-pass gender-dependent HTK speech...
TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results (1998)
John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, Vincent M. Stanford, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper describes the 1997 TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented a first evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech...
Automatic Summarising: Factors and Directions (1998)
Conservative leader Stephen Harper pledged to begin the process of re-building the Canadian Armed Forces in order to strengthen Canadian sovereignty and improve national security. The military is...
How much has information technology contributed to linguistics? (1997)
Information technology should have much to offer linguistics, not only through the opportunities offered by large-scale data analysis and the stimulus to develop formal computational models, but...
The TREC-6 spoken document retrieval track (1997)
Ellen Voorhees, John Garofolo, Karen Sparck Jones
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) workshops provide a forum for different groups to compare retrieval systems on common retrieval tasks. The 1997 TREC workshop will feature a Spoken Document...
Karen Sparck Jones, Irene L. Travis, Richard B. Hill, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Allison Brueckner, Andrew Dillon, ...
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TREC-6 1997 spoken document retrieval track overview and results (1997)
John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, Vincent M. Stanford, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper describes the 1997 TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented a first evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech...
The TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval Track (1997)
Ellen Voorhees, John Garofolo, Karen Sparck Jones
The Text REtrieval Conference #TREC# workshops provide a forum for di#erent groups to compare retrieval systems on common retrieval tasks. The 1997 TREC workshop will feature a Spoken Document...
Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval (1996)
David D. Lewis, Karen Sparck Jones
The paper summarizes the essential properties of document retrieval and reviews both conventional practice and research findings, the latter suggesting that simple statistical techniques can be...
Given the present state of work in natural language processing, this address argues first, that advance in both science and applications requires a revival of concern about what language is about,...
Automatic abstracting was first attempted in the 1950s, in the form of Luhn’s auto-extracts, (cf. Paice, 1990); but since then there has been little work on, or progress made with, this manifestly...
This paper discusses the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC) programme as a major enterprise in information retrieval research. It reviews its structure as an evaluation exercise, characterises the...
Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision (1994)
Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper describes the development and computational testing of a model of the information intermediary based on an AI theory of belief revision. We describe the theoretical foundations of the work...
Modelling information retrieval agents with belief revision (1994)
Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones
This paper describes the development and computational testing of a model of the information intermediary based on an AI theory of belief revision. We describe the theoretical foundations of the work...
Towards better nlp system evaluation (1994)
This paper considers key elements of evaluation methodology, indicating the many points involved and advocating an unpacking approach in specifying an evaluation remit and design. Recognising the...
Revising Beliefs and Intentions: A Unified Framework for Agent Interaction (1993)
Alison Cawsey, Julia Galliers, Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones
. Intelligent agents, interacting with other agents in a changing and uncertain world, must be willing to revise their beliefs and intentions in response to new observed or communicated information....
Cawsey, Alison, Galliers, Julia, Reece, Steven, Jones, Karen Sparck
This paper describes a current research project investigating belief revision in intelligent systems by modelling the librarian in interaction with a literature-seeking user. The work is designed...