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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...
ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
FADA: find all distinct answers
The wealth of information available on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers. While web-based question answering becomes an emerging topic in recent ye...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
EKAW
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Scaling Up Question-Answering to Linked Data
Linked Data semantic sources, in particular DBpedia, can be used to answer many user queries. PowerAqua is an open multi-ontology Question Answering (QA) system for the Semantic We...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Marta Sabou, Victor...