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EMNLP
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Function-Based Question Classification for General QA
In contrast with the booming increase of internet data, state-of-art QA (question answering) systems, otherwise, concerned data from specific domains or resources such as search e...
Fan Bu, Xingwei Zhu, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu
NLDB
2000
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Using Information Extraction and Natural Language Generation to Answer E-Mail
This paper discusses the use of information extraction and natural language generation in the design of an automated e-mail answering system. We analyse short free-form texts and ...
Leila Kosseim, Stéphane Beauregard, Guy Lap...
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion
This paper demonstrates a conceptually simple but effective method of increasing the accuracy of QA systems on factoid-style questions. We define the notion of an inverted questio...
John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennife...
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: A Combined Approach to Slot Filling
The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...