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ANLP
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction
This paper discusses an information extraction (IE) system, Textract, in natural language (NL) question answering (QA) and examines the role of IE in QA application. It shows: (i)...
Rohini K. Srihari, Wei Li 0003
TCSV
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
A Robust Passage Retrieval Algorithm for Video Question Answering
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 8 months ago
A Two-Stage Approach to Retrieving Answers for How-To Questions
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Ling Yin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 8 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir B...