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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
NAACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
IR
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
WDAG
2005
Springer
118views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Computing with Imperfect Randomness
Randomness is a critical resource in many computational scenarios, enabling solutions where deterministic ones are elusive or even provably impossible. However, the randomized solu...
Shafi Goldwasser, Madhu Sudan, Vinod Vaikuntanatha...
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