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AIRS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Junkuo Cao, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, ...
SYNTHESE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Model structure adequacy analysis: selecting models on the basis of their ability to answer scientific questions
Models carry the meaning of science. This puts a tremendous burden on the process of model selection. In general practice, models are selected on the basis of their relative goodne...
Mark L. Taper, David F. Staples, Bradley B. Shepar...
TPDS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations
Many researchers have used lexical networks and ontologies to mitigate synonymy and polysemy problems in Question Answering (QA), systems coupled with taggers, query classifiers,...
Deepa Paranjpe, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sumana Sriniv...
NDQA
2003
156views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Toward a Question Answering Roadmap
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Mark T. Maybury