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LREC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
FIDJI: Web Question-Answering at Quaero 2009
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Modeling for Answering Prediction Questions: Selecting the Time Scale and System Boundary
The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
Jeff Rickel, Bruce W. Porter
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichte...
JASIS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Building a reusable test collection for question answering
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz