Study Questions

You should be able to answer each of the following questions.

  1. What is the likelihood that two people will come up independently with the same name for some object?
  2. How many ``aliases'' are typically needed to ensure (with high probability) that users will be able to come up with an acceptable name?
  3. What is the best way to find the best aliases for a term?
  4. What is the general idea of Lebowitz's use of memory for document analysis?
  5. What are some of the challenges regarding finding good phrases in texts?
  6. How are generalization hierarchies built and searched in Lebowitz's system?
  7. What types of relations are important in Lebowitz's system, and why?
  8. What types of Expert System modules are used in CODER? In I3R from Croft et al.?


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Thu Dec 1 16:36:56 EST 1994