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IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
ICTAI
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Answering Complex Questions Using Query-Focused Summarization Technique
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
LWA
2008
14 years 8 days ago
Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Felix Jungermann, Katharina Morik
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
KDD
2012
ACM
201views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
Learning from crowds in the presence of schools of thought
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
Yuandong Tian, Jun Zhu