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LREC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Context Fusion: The Role of Discourse Structure and Centering Theory
Questions are not asked in isolation. Their context, viz. the preceding interactions, might be of help to understand them and retrieve the correct answer. Previous research in Int...
Raffaella Bernardi, Manuel Kirschner, Zorana Ratko...
NLE
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Interlingual annotation of parallel text corpora: a new framework for annotation and evaluation
This paper focuses on an important step in the creation of a system of meaning representation and the development of semantically-annotated parallel corpora, for use in applicatio...
Bonnie J. Dorr, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David Farwe...
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Where in the Wikipedia Is That Answer? The XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 Task
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
ICTAI
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...
Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft