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COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
A Reliable Approach to Automatic Assessment of Short Answer Free Responses
This paper discusses an innovative approach to the computer assisted scoring of student responses in WebLAS (web-based language assessment system)- a language assessment system de...
Lyle F. Bachman, Nathan Carr, Greg Kamei, Mikyung ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichte...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Automatic Acquisition of Fuzzy Footprints
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters
NLP systems for tasks such as question answering and information extraction typically rely on statistical parsers. But the efficacy of such parsers can be surprisingly low, partic...
Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzion...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramak...