With the variety of human life, people are interested in various matters for each one’s unique reason, for which a machine maybe a better counselor than a human. This paper prop...
Over the past decade, new solid state storage technologies, with flash being the most mature one, have become increasingly popular. Such technologies store data durably, and can a...
This paper is about our approach to answer validation, which centered by a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) core engine. We first combined the question and the answer into Hypo...
We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
Classifying what-type questions into proper semantic categories is found more challenging than classifying other types in question answering systems. In this paper, we propose to ...