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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 days ago
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Góm...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Developing an Approach for Why-Question Answering
In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering why-questions. We created a data collection for research, development and evaluation of a meth...
Suzan Verberne
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Answering English Questions using Foreign-Language, Semi-Structured Sources
Despite continuing advances in machine translation technology, users who lack familiarity with particular foreign languages have no good way to find information in those languages...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan K...
NDQA
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Issues in Extraction and Categorization for Question Answering
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...
David Eichmann