This paper discusses a semi-complete disambiguation algorithm for open text.

Paper outlining basic legal issues related to international forestry carbon projects. It includes introductory and legal background information, pre-implementation issues and activities, and a sample contract and annotated hypothetical project description, as well as a bibliography of relevant sources.

This paper discusses an iterative approach to Word Sense Disambiguation.

This article discusses the structure and performance of an open-domain question answering system.

This article discusses semantic indexing using WordNet senses.

This paper discusses FALCON, an answer engine that integrates different forms of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge for the goal of achieving better performance.

This paper discusses the Z39.50 protocol. The ANSI/NISO Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval addresses the complex challenges of intersystem communication. Original uses envisioned for the protocol look very little like current implementations and uses. In the 1980s, users on one library catalog system would search and retrieve bibliographic records on a remote system. By the late 1990s, there was a need for discovering networked resources and integrating access to them. Yet, the Z39.50 protocol has addressed both these scenarios. This paper provides a portrayal of Z39.50 that explains its flexibility in response to a variety of information retrieval requirements in the networked environment.

A rough draft paper titled "Are There Common Messages from the Annenberg Arts Project?", as part of the Annenberg Arts project discussion.

"This paper describes advantages and recent innovations in the use of prefabricated bridge elements and systems, highlighting uses throughout the country." (p. 1).

This article discusses the role of lexico-semantic feedback in open-domain textual question-answering.

Student report on biblical theory

This paper discusses automatic generation of a coarse grained WordNet.

This paper discusses eXtended WordNet.

This paper discusses interoperability of networked information. Interoperability is a fundamental challenge for networked information discovery and retrieval. Often treated monolithically in the literature, interoperability is multifaceted and can be analyzed into different types and levels. This paper discusses an approach to map the interoperability landscape for networked information retrieval as part of an interoperability assessment research project.

Paper on the factors that affected of alternative popular music in Recife, Brazil. The contrasts between the discourses of bands, producers, and patrons reflect larger tensions in the Recife alternative music scene, which in turn point towards ruptures in the relationship between mainstream and alternative cultural production in Brazil.

This paper describes a close look at the distribution in constructions of the closed class of complex predicate forming stems in Klallam traditionally called 'auxiliaries.'

An operating assumption for the networked environment is that many different information systems need to interoperate for users to successfully discover and retrieve distributed resources. Meaningful interoperability is often elusive. In the library community, the Z39.50 standard protocol (ISO 23950/ANSI/NISO Z39.50) for information retrieval promised seamless and transparent networked access to library resources. Too often, the reality has not lived up to the promise. This paper discusses two efforts that offer solution paths to Z39.50 interoperability.

This paper explains how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology held in Detroit, Michigan on October 25-28, 2001.

This paper presents the architecture of the Question-Answering server (QAS) developed at the Language Computer Corporation (LCC) and used in the TREC-10 evaluations.

This paper discusses efficient energy saving techniques for on-chip caches, focusing especially on drowsy cache schemes.

Document accompanying a poster presentation on an ontological study of customer input prior to a home page redesign.

Paper presented at the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society in 2002. This paper discusses growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses from individual shoots to plant models.

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.

Conference paper about the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Technology Implementation Group (TIG) and its activities related to implementation of three innovative prefabricated bridge elements and systems. Abstract: "This paper describes the recently created American Association of State Highway and transportation Officials (AASHTO) Technology Implementation Group (TIG) and its activities related to implementation of one of its first three innovative products -- prefabricated bridge elements and systems. Details include examples of various prefabricated bridge elements and systems constructed to date and a vision of the direction needed to address the significant challenges we face now and into the future to 'get in, get out, and stay out.'"