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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling betweenness for question answering
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Brandeis Marshall
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Type Checking in Open-Domain Question Answering
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...