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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
FADA: find all distinct answers
The wealth of information available on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers. While web-based question answering becomes an emerging topic in recent ye...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Ranking community answers via analogical reasoning
Due to the lexical gap between questions and answers, automatically detecting right answers becomes very challenging for community question-answering sites. In this paper, we prop...
Xudong Tu, Xin-Jing Wang, Dan Feng, Lei Zhang
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...
Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Alessandro Vallin