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UAI
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
DKE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
NDQA
2003
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13 years 8 months ago
Knowledge Tracking: Answering Implicit Questions
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling betweenness for question answering
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Brandeis Marshall
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
Online forum discussions often contain vast amounts of questions that are the focuses of discussions. Extracting contexts and answers together with the questions will yield not on...
Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu