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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Self-learning web question answering system
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
AML
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On a question of Pereira
Answering a question of Pereira we show that it is possible to have a model violating the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis without a tree-like continuous scale.
Moti Gitik