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NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
TCSV
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Robust Passage Retrieval Algorithm for Video Question Answering
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs
Opinion Question Answering (Opinion QA), which aims to find the authors' sentimental opinions on a specific target, is more challenging than traditional factbased question an...
Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...