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EMNLP
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Information Retrieval Baselines for the ResPubliQA Task
This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Guillermo Ga...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
MM
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Comparing fact finding tasks and user survey for evaluating a video browsing tool
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Development of an evaluation model for Question Answering Systems
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
Chorng-Shyong Ong, Min-Yuh Day, Wen-Lian Hsu