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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
IR
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
IR
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir B...
KRDB
2003
111views Database» more  KRDB 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
A Framework for Answering Queries using Multiple Representation and Inference Techniques
The Polylog framework is designed to provide a language for efficiently automating complex queries of information represented in multiple formats. A Polylog program contains a set...
Nicholas L. Cassimatis