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COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Testing the Suitability of Markov Chains as Web Usage Models
Markov chains have been used to model web usages and served as the basis for statistical testing, performance evaluation, and reliability analysis. However, most of such applicati...
Zhao Li, Jeff Tian
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What Happened to Esfinge in 2007?
Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other externa...
Luís Miguel Cabral, Luís Fernando Co...
AWIC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Multilingual QA System Based on the Web Data Redundancy
This paper explores the feasibility of a multilingual question answering approach based on the Web redundancy. The paper introduces a system prototype that combines a translation m...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Luis Villaseño...
NDQA
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation
We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
A Reliable Approach to Automatic Assessment of Short Answer Free Responses
This paper discusses an innovative approach to the computer assisted scoring of student responses in WebLAS (web-based language assessment system)- a language assessment system de...
Lyle F. Bachman, Nathan Carr, Greg Kamei, Mikyung ...