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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automated performance assessment in interactive QA
In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...
Joyce Y. Chai, Tyler Baldwin, Chen Zhang
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
FACTO: a fact lookup engine based on web tables
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Chao Liu
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft