This paper describes a knowledge-based methodologyof miningtextual answersinto large collections of texts. Wepresent SOMBRERO,a knowledge processing module implemented in the LASS...
How does a `normal' computer (or social) network look like? How can we spot `abnormal' sub-networks in the Internet, or web graph? The answer to such questions is vital ...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
We present a method for learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web. In our approach, proper nouns are expanded into new queries aimed at maximizing the probab...
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...