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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Overview of the Clef 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track
The QA campaign at CLEF [1], was manly the same as that proposed last year. The results and the analyses reported by last year's participants suggested that the changes introd...
Pamela Forner, Anselmo Peñas, Eneko Agirre,...
DIS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Knowledge Navigation on Visualizing Complementary Documents
Abstract. It is an up-to-date challenge to get answers for novel questions which nobody has ever considered. Such a question is too rare to be satisfied with a past single documen...
Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...