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SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Answering English Questions using Foreign-Language, Semi-Structured Sources
Despite continuing advances in machine translation technology, users who lack familiarity with particular foreign languages have no good way to find information in those languages...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan K...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 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...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...