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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The role of context in question answering systems
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A no-frills architecture for lightweight answer retrieval
In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
Marius Pasca
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Automated performance assessment in interactive QA
In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...
Joyce Y. Chai, Tyler Baldwin, Chen Zhang
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan, Marita Ailomaa