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PAKDD
2010
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
LREC
2010
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14 years 18 days ago
A Comprehensive Resource to Evaluate Complex Open Domain Question Answering
We describe two corpora of question and answer pairs collected for complex, open-domain Question Answering (QA) to enable answer classification and re-ranking experiments. We deli...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alessandro Moschitti
IR
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
TREC
2007
14 years 10 days ago
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev
LREC
2010
187views Education» more  LREC 2010»
14 years 18 days ago
FIDJI: Web Question-Answering at Quaero 2009
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau