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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Conditional Likelihood Maximisation: A Unifying Framework for Information Theoretic Feature Selection
We present a unifying framework for information theoretic feature selection, bringing almost two decades of research on heuristic filter criteria under a single theoretical inter...
Gavin Brown, Adam Pocock, Ming-Jie Zhao, Mikel Luj...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
95views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Eliciting truthful answers to multiple-choice questions
Motivated by the prevalence of online questionnaires in electronic commerce, and of multiple-choice questions in such questionnaires, we consider the problem of eliciting truthful...
Nicolas S. Lambert, Yoav Shoham
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval
The Question Answering Task requires user interaction. Users can help the system by reformulating the questions, adding information to them or selecting the documents on which the ...
Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodr&iac...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...