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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
NAACL
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
FINTAL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann