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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
WILF
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Exploring the Application of Fuzzy Logic and Data Fusion Mechanisms in QAS
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
Daniel Ortiz Arroyo, Hans Ulrich Christensen
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees