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CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 27 days 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