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UAI
2003
13 years 11 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...
TREC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Syntactic Clues and Lexical Resources in Question-Answering
CL Research's question-answering system (DIMAP-QA) for TREC-9 significantly extends its semantic relation triple (logical form) technology in which documents are fully parsed...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
Cache-aware load balancing for question answering
The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
David Dominguez-Sal, Mihai Surdeanu, Josep Aguilar...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
To the Question "Does IT Matter?" Hollywood Answers "Yes"
Nicholas Carr’s question “Does IT Matter?”(to the maintenance of competitive advantage) has been applied to many industries but the one that depends on IT almost exclusively...
David A. Cook, Wenli Wang