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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
LREC
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Creating Sentence-Aligned Parallel Text Corpora from a Large Archive of Potential Parallel Text using BITS and Champollion
Parallel text is one of the most valuable resources for development of statistical machine translation systems and other NLP applications. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has...
Kazuaki Maeda, Xiaoyi Ma, Stephanie Strassel
ACL
2009
13 years 6 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
MONTEREY
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Logic-Based Regulatory Conformance Checking
In this paper, we describe an approach to formally assess whether an organization conforms to a body of regulation. Conformance is cast as a model checking question where the regul...
Nikhil Dinesh, Aravind K. Joshi, Insup Lee, Oleg S...
NDQA
2003
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13 years 10 months ago
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva