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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
FINTAL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Góm...
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering by Searching Large Corpora With Linguistic Methods
In this paper we describe the QuALiM Question Answering system which uses linguistic analysis of questions as well as candidate sentences in its answer finding process. To this en...
Michael Kaißer, Tilman Becker
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering with QED and Wee at TREC 2004
This report describes the experiments of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sydney at the TREC-2004 question answering evaluation exercise. Our system combines two ...
Kisuh Ahn, Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, Tiphaine Dalm...
ACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
Edward Schofield, Zhiping Zheng