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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering System
This paper describes the work done by the RFIA group at the Departamento de Sistemas Inform´aticos y Computaci´on of the Universidad Polit´ecnica of Valencia for the 2007 editio...
Davide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Em...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...