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COCOON
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Information Distance from a Question to an Answer
We provide three key missing pieces of a general theory of information distance [3, 23, 24]. We take bold steps in formulating a revised theory to avoid some pitfalls in practical...
Ming Li
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions
We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson
EMNLP
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Identification of Event Mentions and their Semantic Class
Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related ta...
Steven Bethard, James H. Martin
FSKD
2006
Springer
190views Fuzzy Logic» more  FSKD 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
A Maximum Entropy Model Based Answer Extraction for Chinese Question Answering
We regard answer extraction of Question Answering (QA) system as a classification problem, classifying answer candidate sentences into positive or negative. To confirm the feasibil...
Ang Sun, Minghu Jiang, Yanjun Ma
INTERACT
2003
13 years 8 months ago
What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...