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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
ICTAI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Answering Complex Questions Using Query-Focused Summarization Technique
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow