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CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Little Known Fact Is ... Answering Other Questions Using Interest-Markers
In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
DEXAW
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Machine Learning for Question Answering from Tabular Data
Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Discriminative probabilistic models for passage based retrieval
The approach of using passage-level evidence for document retrieval has shown mixed results when it is applied to a variety of test beds with different characteristics. One main r...
Mengqiu Wang, Luo Si