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WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
ITRUST
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...
LREC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
An Evaluation of Technologies for Knowledge Base Population
Previous content extraction evaluations have neglected to address problems which complicate the incorporation of extracted information into an existing knowledge base. Previous qu...
Paul McNamee, Hoa Trang Dang, Heather Simpson, Pat...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Application of Lexical-Syntactic Knowledge to the Answer Validation Exercise
Abstract. This paper presents a system that applies Textual Entailment recognition techniques to the AVE task. This is performed comparing representations of text snippets by means...
Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafae...
ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Informed data distribution selection in a self-predicting storage system
— Systems should be self-predicting. They should continuously monitor themselves and provide quantitative answers to What...if questions about hypothetical workload or resource c...
Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, ...