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ACL
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days 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
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua