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FINTAL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
NDQA
2003
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13 years 8 months ago
AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System
The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answ...
Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
FINTAL
2006
13 years 10 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...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramak...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCS
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...