Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Systems

Zhiping Zheng
School of Information
University of Michigan
zzheng@umich.edu

AnswerBus Question Answering System
An open-domain QA system. It accepts natural language questions and extracts possible answers from the Web. You can use English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese to ask questions.

Seven Tones: Specialized Search Engine in Linguistics and Languages (More about this system)
A search engine only searches information about linguistics and languages.

International News Connection (More about this system)
A real-time news channel that connects you to current world news from up to fourteen news sources. The news is automatically classified and constantly updated.

Content-Based Image Search and Retrieval (Mirror Site)
These search engines search images by color, shape and texture.

TREC-9 AP News Search
TREC-9 AP news (1988-1990) search engine. (It is temporary unavailable due to network file system problem.)

Automated Sentence Splitter
An HTML/plain speech text parser. It will parse the content of a Web page into sentences. AnswerBus system uses this tool.

Related Word Finder
The program uses distributional similarity to look for "related words" in TREC-9 AP news corpus (about 240,000 news stories).

Specialized Automatic HTML Document Summarizer
It can summrize web pages related to different topics. The summarization will be more accurate for web documents in a specific domain - linguistics and languages.

On-line Literati Solution - A Fun Anagram
Using this program, You can find solutions for Yahoo!'s online literati games.

CHICO Search Engine
A distributional search engine developed for multiple web sites within CHICO.