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ACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
LREC
2010
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Identification of the Question Focus: Combining Syntactic Analysis and Ontology-based Lookup through the User Interaction
Most question-answering systems contain a classifier module which determines a question category, based on which each question is assigned an answer type. However, setting up synt...
Danica Damljanovic, Milan Agatonovic, Hamish Cunni...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Chinese is a language that does not have morphological tense markers that provide explicit grammaticalization of the temporal location of situations (events or states). However, i...
Nianwen Xue