‘FROM AN OLD DIRECTORY’

YPA — an intelligent directory enquiry assistant

The YPA project is building a system to make the information in classified directories more accessible. BT's Yellow Pages ®1 provides an example of a classified database with which this work would be useful. There are two reasons for doing this: (i) directories like Yellow Pages contain much useful but hard-to-access information, especially in the free text in semi-display advertisements; (ii) ...

Towards an automated directory information system

This paper describes a design and feasibility study for a large-scale automatic directory information system with a scalable architecture. The current demonstrator, called PADIS-XL, operates in realtime and handles a database of a medium-size German city with 130,000 listings. The system uses a new technique of taking a combined decision on the joint probability over multiple dialogue turns, an...

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Department Head: Dan Wilson, [email protected] [7], (434) 924-0193 Collection Development & Management Librarian: Jonathan Lord , [email protected] [8], (434) 924-0059 Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Specialist: Jeri Davis, [email protected] [9], (434) 924-0058 Southwest Virginia Outreach Librarian: Ann Duesing, [email protected] [10], (276) 328-0168 Metadata Services Manager: Abbey Hefli...