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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months 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
LREC
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Paragraph Acquisition and Selection for List Question Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Creating more fine-grained annotated data than previously relevent document sets is important for evaluating individual components in automatic question answering systems. In this...
Fang Xu, Dietrich Klakow
TREC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2007 QA Track
Abstract: In our participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering (QA) track, we focused on three tasks. First, we processed the new blog corpus and converted it to formats which ...
Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khal...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Building a question answering test collection
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
TREC
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Goal-Driven Answer Extraction
We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
Michael Laszlo, Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme