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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
LREC
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Evaluation Protocol and Tools for Question-Answering on Speech Transcripts
Question Answering (QA) technology aims at providing relevant answers to natural language questions. Most Question Answering research has focused on mining document collections co...
Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Sop...
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 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
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh