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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 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
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
IR
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Natural Language Processing Using Graph Models
In the past, NLP has always been based on the explicit or implicit use of linguistic knowledge. In classical computer linguistic applications explicit rule based approaches prevai...
Chris Biemann
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...