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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2009
ACM
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 8 months ago
2008
Models carry the meaning of science. This puts a tremendous burden on the process of model selection. In general practice, models are selected on the basis of their relative goodne...
LREC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Question Answering systems are systems that enable the user to ask questions in natural language and to also receive an answer in natural language. Most existing systems, however,...
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2003
Springer
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...