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AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Qi Yan
NLDB
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Applying Wikipedia's Multilingual Knowledge to Cross-Lingual Question Answering
The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of Eu...
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Ósc...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
NAACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
ACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Semantic Relevance for Question-Answer Pairs in Web Social Communities
Quantifying the semantic relevance between questions and their candidate answers is essential to answer detection in social media corpora. In this paper, a deep belief network is ...
Baoxun Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Chengjie Sun, Bingquan...