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SYNTHESE
2008
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Model structure adequacy analysis: selecting models on the basis of their ability to answer scientific questions
Models carry the meaning of science. This puts a tremendous burden on the process of model selection. In general practice, models are selected on the basis of their relative goodne...
Mark L. Taper, David F. Staples, Bradley B. Shepar...
AAAI
1994
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Modeling for Answering Prediction Questions: Selecting the Time Scale and System Boundary
The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
Jeff Rickel, Bruce W. Porter
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
NDQA
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Answering Questions about Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos
Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunit...
Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Chris Stauffer, W. Eric ...
SDM
2003
SIAM
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13 years 9 months ago
Approximate Query Answering by Model Averaging
In earlier work we have introduced and explored a variety of different probabilistic models for the problem of answering selectivity queries posed to large sparse binary data set...
Dmitry Pavlov, Padhraic Smyth