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FINTAL
2006
14 years 4 days ago
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
NAACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models
In the past, NLP has always been based on the explicit or implicit use of linguistic knowledge. In classical computer linguistic applications explicit rule based approaches prevai...
Chris Biemann
BIBE
2007
IEEE
169views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
IR
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum