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A Sys Called Qanda

Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...

Another Sys Called Qanda

2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

- Period Resource Allocation at Sys

The Internet consists of a variety of interconnected heterogeneous networks managed by independent providers. At the edges between two networks resources are allocated. In this paper, we present a framework and taxonomy for problems at these edges like admission control and provider selection; we call them multi-period resource allocation problems at system edges (MPRASE). We look at several pr...

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Interpreting voice commands in radar sys- tems

This master’s thesis is done in collaboration with SAAB and outlines an architecture for developing a voice command system with focus on supporting multiple languages, ease of introducing new domain knowledge, resource efficient and running in an offline environment. The solution and the decisions made along the process as well as their advantages and drawbacks are explained in this report. As ...