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SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Building a question answering test collection
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
LREC
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Speech Grammars for Textual Entailment Patterns in Multimodal Question Answering
Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...
Daniel Sonntag, Bogdan Sacaleanu
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
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
DGO
2004
110views Education» more  DGO 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
Question Answering Performance on Table Data
Question answering (QA) on table data is a challenging information retrieval task. This paper describes a QA system for tables created with both machine learning and heuristic tab...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, David Pinto