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ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering
In this paper, we discuss how to utilize the co-occurrence of answers in building an automatic question answering system that answers a series of questions on a specific topic in ...
Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski
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...
WILF
2007
Springer
101views Fuzzy Logic» more  WILF 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Exploring the Application of Fuzzy Logic and Data Fusion Mechanisms in QAS
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
Daniel Ortiz Arroyo, Hans Ulrich Christensen
LREC
2010
173views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
A Corpus for Studying Full Answer Justification
Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau, Olivier Ferret, Cyri...
NDQA
2003
123views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 8 months ago
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski...