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EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 11 months ago
QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown
AWIC
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems - The Need for New Tools
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
NDQA
2003
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13 years 11 months ago
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
TPDS
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...