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ACL
2001
13 years 9 months ago
The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering
This paper presents an open-domain textual Question-Answering system that uses several feedback loops to enhance its performance. These feedback loops combine in a new way statist...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca,...
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Corpus-based Pattern Induction for a Knowledge-based Question Answering Approach
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
Philipp Cimiano, Michael Erdmann, Günter Ladw...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Quartz: A Question Answering System for Dutch
We describe a question answering system for Dutch that we used for our participation in the 2006 CLEF Question Answering Dutch monolingual task. We give an overview of the system a...
David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, M...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 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...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft