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RIAO
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Question Answering
We have developed a method for answering single answer questions automatically using a collection of documents or the Internet as a source of data for the production of the answer...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Improving QA Accuracy by Question Inversion
This paper demonstrates a conceptually simple but effective method of increasing the accuracy of QA systems on factoid-style questions. We define the notion of an inverted questio...
John M. Prager, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Jennife...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
120views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Exploring the Semantic Validity of Questionnaire Scales
Many behavioral researchers have been or are currently engaged in survey research, analyzing results using statistical methods. Respondents are often asked to fill out questionnai...
Kai R. Larsen, Dorit Nevo, Eliot Rich
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang