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NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
FQAS
2004
Springer
91views Database» more  FQAS 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
On the Discovery of the Semantic Context of Queries by Game-Playing
In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS-04), Springer-Verlag LNAI 3055, pp. 203-216. c 2004 by Springer-Verlag. To model qu...
Alessandro Agostini, Paolo Avesani
ACL
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 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
CORR
2002
Springer
85views Education» more  CORR 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
The partition semantics of questions, syntactically
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition t...
Chung-chieh Shan, Balder ten Cate