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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...
IRI
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
BESearch: A Supervised Learning Approach to Search for Molecular Event Participants
Biomedical researchers rely on keyword-based search engines to retrieve superficially relevant documents, from which they must filter out irrelevant information manually. Hence, t...
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hu...
KDD
2012
ACM
201views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Learning from crowds in the presence of schools of thought
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
Yuandong Tian, Jun Zhu
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
MM
2005
ACM
172views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Learning the semantics of multimedia queries and concepts from a small number of examples
In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, Jelena Tesic