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WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content
Implicitly structured content on the Web such as HTML tables and lists can be extremely valuable for web search, question answering, and information retrieval, as the implicit str...
Eugene Agichtein, Chris Burges, Eric Brill
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 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
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
IR
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...