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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling betweenness for question answering
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Brandeis Marshall
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions
Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to de cide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chandrika Jayant, Hanjie Ji, Gr...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
DAGSTUHL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Personalization of Queries based on User Preferences
Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The und...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis