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AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: A Combined Approach to Slot Filling
The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Ranking community answers via analogical reasoning
Due to the lexical gap between questions and answers, automatically detecting right answers becomes very challenging for community question-answering sites. In this paper, we prop...
Xudong Tu, Xin-Jing Wang, Dan Feng, Lei Zhang
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
G-Finder: routing programming questions closer to the experts
Programming forums are becoming the primary tools for programmers to find answers for their programming problems. Our empirical study of popular programming forums shows that the...
Wei Li, Charles Zhang, Songlin Hu
KES
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Recommendation for English multiple-choice cloze questions based on expected test scores
When students study for multiple-choice cloze tests as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), they tend to repeatedly tackle questions of the same type. In su...
Tomoharu Iwata, Tomoko Kojiri, Takeshi Yamada, Toy...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang