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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
TCSV
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Robust Passage Retrieval Algorithm for Video Question Answering
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee