Questions and Information Systems
Thomas Lauer Eileen, Thomas Lauer, Eileen Peacock, Arthur C. Graesser, John S. White · Psychology Press eBooks · 2013
This paper essentially describes the design of the Interpretext natural language text-understanding system, in terms of the generally accepted precision-recall advantages of such designs over keyword searches. Dahlgren has the opportunity here to address the interesting implications of adding querying to modern message understanding. But she shies away from this, though, essentially adding a passage about the advantages of using the same understanding mechanism to process both queries and the text to be retrieved. In slighting that discussion, the author misses the focus that connects text understanding to the book's themes