John M. Prager

Elena Filatova, John M. Prager: Occupation inference through detection and classification of biographical activities. Data Knowl. Eng. 76: 39-57 (2012)

Adam Lally, John M. Prager, Michael C. McCord, Branimir Boguraev, Siddharth Patwardhan, James Fan, Paul Fodor, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Question analysis: How Watson reads a clue. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 2 (2012)

Aditya Kalyanpur, Branimir Boguraev, Siddharth Patwardhan, J. William Murdock, Adam Lally, Chris Welty, John M. Prager, Bonaventura Coppola, Achille Fokoue-Nkoutche, Lei Zhang, Yue Pan, Zhaoming Qiu: Structured data and inference in DeepQA. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 10 (2012)

John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Special Questions and techniques. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 11 (2012)

Gerry Tesauro, David Gondek, Jon Lenchner, James Fan, John M. Prager: Simulation, learning, and optimization techniques in Watson's game strategies. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 16 (2012)

David A. Ferrucci, Eric W. Brown, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan, David Gondek, Aditya Kalyanpur, Adam Lally, J. William Murdock, Eric Nyberg, John M. Prager, Nico Schlaefer, Christopher A. Welty: Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. AI Magazine 31(3): 59-79 (2010)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John M. Prager: An experimental study of the impact of information extraction accuracy on semantic search performance. CIKM 2007: 505-514

John M. Prager, Sarah Luger, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Type nanotheories: a framework for term comparison. CIKM 2007: 701-710

John M. Prager: Open-Domain Question-Answering. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 1(2): 91-231 (2006)

John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion. ACL 2006

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John M. Prager, Krzysztof Czuba, David A. Ferrucci, Pablo Ariel Duboué: Semantic search via XML fragments: a high-precision approach to IR. SIGIR 2006: 445-452

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Guillermo A. Averboch, Pablo Ariel Duboué, David Gondek, J. William Murdock, John M. Prager, Paul Hoffmann, Janyce Wiebe: IBM in TREC 2006 Enterprise Track. TREC 2006

Elena Filatova, John M. Prager: Tell Me What You Do and I'll Tell You What You Are: Learning Occupation-Related Activities for Biographies. HLT/EMNLP 2005

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Pablo Ariel Duboué, John M. Prager, Krzysztof Czuba: IBM's PIQUANT II in TREC 2005. TREC 2005

John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba: Question Answering Using Constraint Satisfaction: QA-By-Dossier-With-Contraints. ACL 2004: 574-581

John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba: A Multi-Agent Approach to Using Redundancy and Reinforcement in Question Answering. New Directions in Question Answering 2004: 237-252

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Prager, Abraham Ittycheriah, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn: IBM's PIQUANT II in TREC 2004. TREC 2004

James Allan, Jay Aslam, Nicholas J. Belkin, Chris Buckley, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Susan T. Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard H. Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John D. Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David D. Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay M. Ponte, John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen E. Robertson, Ronald Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Richard M. Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan F. Smeaton, Howard R. Turtle, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai: Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002. SIGIR Forum 37(1): 31-47 (2003)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Prager, Abraham Ittycheriah: In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One. HLT-NAACL 2003

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, David A. Ferrucci, John M. Prager, Christopher A. Welty: Hybridization in Question Answering Systems. New Directions in Question Answering 2003: 116-121

John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, Christopher A. Welty, Abraham Ittycheriah, Ruchi Mahindru: IBM's PIQUANT in TREC2003. TREC 2003: 283-292

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, John M. Prager, Christopher A. Welty, Krzysztof Czuba, David A. Ferrucci: A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering. TREC 2002

Dragomir R. Radev, Hong Qi, Zhiping Zheng, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Zhu Zhang, Weiguo Fan, John M. Prager: Mining the Web for Answers to Natural Language Questions. CIKM 2001: 143-150

John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba: Use of WordNet Hypernyms for Answering What-Is Questions. TREC 2001

John M. Prager: Linguini: Language Identification for Multilingual Documents. J. of Management Information Systems 16(3): 71-102 (2000)

Dragomir R. Radev, John M. Prager, Valerie Samn: Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation. ANLP 2000: 150-157

James W. Cooper, John M. Prager: Anti-Serendipity: Finding Useless Documents and Similar Documents. HICSS 2000

John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Dragomir R. Radev: Question-answering by predictive annotation. SIGIR 2000: 184-191

John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Dragomir R. Radev, Krzysztof Czuba: One Search Engine or Two for Question-Answering. TREC 2000

Dragomir R. Radev, John M. Prager, Valerie Samn: Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation. CoRR cs.CL/0005029 (2000)

John M. Prager: Linguini: Language Identification for Multilingual Documents. HICSS 1999

John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Valerie Samn: The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8. TREC 1999

John M. Prager, Donna M. Lamberti, David L. Gardner, Stephen R. Balzac: REASON: An Intelligent User Assistant for Interactive Environments. IBM Systems Journal 29(1): 141-164 (1990)

John M. Prager, Michael A. Arbib: Computing the optic flow: The MATCH algorithm and prediction. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 24(3): 271-304 (1983)

John M. Prager: The Project Automated Librarian. IBM Systems Journal 22(3): 214-228 (1983)