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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
LREC
2010
197views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web
After several years of development, the vision of the Semantic Web is gradually becoming reality. Large data repositories have been created and offer semantic information in a mac...
Peter Adolphs, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Hans...
ICADL
2004
Springer
110views Education» more  ICADL 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Jian Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
MM
2003
ACM
160views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
VideoQA: question answering on news video
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
Hui Yang, Lekha Chaisorn, Yunlong Zhao, Shi-Yong N...