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TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task
This paper describes a question answering system and its various modules to solve definition, factoid and list questions defined in the TREC12 Main task. In particular, we tackle ...
Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu...
ACL
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Extraction and Approximation of Numerical Attributes from the Web
We present a novel framework for automated extraction and approximation of numerical object attributes such as height and weight from the Web. Given an object-attribute pair, we d...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Text Categorization with Knowledge Transfer from Heterogeneous Data Sources
Multi-category classification of short dialogues is a common task performed by humans. When assigning a question to an expert, a customer service operator tries to classify the cu...
Rakesh Gupta, Lev-Arie Ratinov
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
ODIN: A Model for Adapting and Enriching Legacy Infrastructure
The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)1 is a database of interlinear text "snippets", harvested mostly from scholarly documents posted to the Web. Although large...
William D. Lewis