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FINTAL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
ACL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering
In this paper, we discuss how to utilize the co-occurrence of answers in building an automatic question answering system that answers a series of questions on a specific topic in ...
Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
PAKDD
2010
ACM
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14 years 4 days ago
Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...