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IPM
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
User simulations for evaluating answers to question series
Recently, question series have become one focus of research in question answering. These series are comprised of individual factoid, list, and “other” questions organized arou...
Jimmy J. Lin
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Expert identification in community question answering: exploring question selection bias
Community Question Answering (CQA) services enables users to ask and answer questions. In these communities, there are typically a small number of experts amongst the large popula...
Aditya Pal, Joseph A. Konstan
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...