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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
JDCTA
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
NAACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees