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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
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
Martin M. Soubbotin
ISI
2005
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
How Question Answering Technology Helps to Locate Malevolent Online Content
The inherent lack of control over the Internet content resulted in proliferation of online material that can be potentially detrimental. For example, the infamous “Anarchist Coo...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler