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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Learning to rank with partially-labeled data
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Kevin Duh, Katrin Kirchhoff
ICDE
2010
IEEE
171views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Surrogate Ranking for Very Expensive Similarity Queries
1 We consider the problem of similarity search in applications where the cost of computing the similarity between two records is very expensive, and the similarity measure is not a...
Chris Jermaine, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Ravi Jampani, T...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
146views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...