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WSDM
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Quality-aware collaborative question answering: methods and evaluation
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...
ACL
2008
14 years 10 days ago
Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System
Question answering research has only recently started to spread from short factoid questions to more complex ones. One significant challenge is the evaluation: manual evaluation i...
Joanna Mrozinski, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Sadaoki ...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty
DKE
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
CICLING
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...