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ACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. F...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
CICLING
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Learning the Query Generation Patterns
Abstract. With the current method of query formation, a Question Answering system retrieves a set of documents that are similar to a question, while what is mostly required is a se...
Marcin Skowron, Kenji Araki
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang