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ESWA
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A weighted string pattern matching-based passage ranking algorithm for video question answering
Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
TREC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
TREC 2007 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R....
ACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
Edward Schofield, Zhiping Zheng
TREC
2000
13 years 10 months ago
The PISAB Question Answering System
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Cristian Burrini