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DKE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
NLDB
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Automatic Definition Extraction in Arabic Language
During the last few years, a lot of researches have focused on automatic definition extraction in the context of question answering systems. Although, these researches have been co...
Omar Trigui, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Paolo Rosso
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content
Implicitly structured content on the Web such as HTML tables and lists can be extremely valuable for web search, question answering, and information retrieval, as the implicit str...
Eugene Agichtein, Chris Burges, Eric Brill
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...