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CORR
2000
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...
ANLP
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction
This paper discusses an information extraction (IE) system, Textract, in natural language (NL) question answering (QA) and examines the role of IE in QA application. It shows: (i)...
Rohini K. Srihari, Wei Li 0003
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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Questions in, knowledge in?: a study of naver's question answering community
Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
Kevin Kyung Nam, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
NDQA
2003
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13 years 8 months ago
AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System
The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answ...
Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
AAAI
1994
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Modeling for Answering Prediction Questions: Selecting the Time Scale and System Boundary
The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
Jeff Rickel, Bruce W. Porter