On Friday 14 November 2003 13:39, Chong, Herb wrote:I'm not sure understand you right. You wish to make language based queries to a IR system?
you're describing ad-hoc solutions to a problem that have an effect, but
not one that is easily predictable. one can concoct all sorts of
combinations of the query operators that would have something of the effect
that i am describing. crossing sentence boundaries, however, can't be done
If I'm right may be I can help you!
Here is presentation by the MIT that does something similar.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/155/
That is a video > 1h. But the first talk will contain the part is interesting for you.
Leslie Pack Kaelbling: MIT Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science hold it.
(the sequence with the two guys with a phone is interesting for you).
They just have 2 components around the "nl ir query". It is speech to text and text to speech.
What you can do is use a pos tagger (i.e. a maximum entropy model based or Brill tagger if you just have english) and use a data mining algorithm for weight your terms.
May be you can use a hidden Markov model for that.
You can build this on top of lucene, shouldn't be that difficult.
But may be I understand you wrong.. ..
Cheers Stefan
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