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WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 10 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
ISCI
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Semantic passage segmentation based on sentence topics for question answering
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Myung-Gil Jang
ICDE
2012
IEEE
249views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
12 years 8 days ago
Answering Why-not Questions on Top-k Queries
Abstract—After decades of effort working on database performance, the quality and the usability of database systems have received more attention in recent years. In particular, t...
Zhian He, Eric Lo
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Dealing with Spoken Requests in a Multimodal Question Answering System
Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
Roberto Gretter, Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri
NLDB
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Experiments with the Use of Syntactic Analysis in Information Retrieval
: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
Markus Mittendorfer, Werner Winiwarter