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TPDS
2002
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Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
ACL
2009
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Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
TREC
2007
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UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev
LREC
2010
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Identification of the Question Focus: Combining Syntactic Analysis and Ontology-based Lookup through the User Interaction
Most question-answering systems contain a classifier module which determines a question category, based on which each question is assigned an answer type. However, setting up synt...
Danica Damljanovic, Milan Agatonovic, Hamish Cunni...
EMNLP
2004
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Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell