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ACL
2009
15 years 3 months ago
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown
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SIGIR
1998
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries
Abstract This paper presents a method for combining query-relevance with information-novelty in the context of text retrieval and summarization. The Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR...
Jaime G. Carbonell, Jade Goldstein
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Lexical Approach for Spanish Question Answering
This paper discusses our system’s results at the Spanish Question Answering task of CLEF 2007. Our system is centered in a full data-driven approach that combines information ret...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juáre...
TREC
2000
15 years 7 months ago
TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCS
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...