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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
ICADL
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Jian Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering
Automatic open domain question answering (QA) has been the focus of much recent research, stimu
Ian Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann