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APWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis for Personalized Web Search
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
Chenxi Lin, Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Yong Yu
FINTAL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Góm...
ICMCS
1999
IEEE
131views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System
The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days 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