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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The role of context in question answering systems
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
MEDINFO
2007
137views Healthcare» more  MEDINFO 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
How do Clinicians Search For and Access Biomedical Literature to Answer Clinical Questions?
This paper presents a retrospective data analysis on how 75 clinicians searched for and accessed biomedical literature from an online information retrieval system to answer six cl...
Annie Y. S. Lau, Enrico W. Coiera
NDQA
2003
119views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Self-learning web question answering system
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin