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EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
Relevance Measures for Question Answering, The LIA at QA@CLEF-2006
This article presents the first participation of the Avignon University Science Laboratory (LIA) to the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). LIA participated to the monolingual ...
Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, P...
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Development of an evaluation model for Question Answering Systems
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
Chorng-Shyong Ong, Min-Yuh Day, Wen-Lian Hsu
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang