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...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...