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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
mimir: a market-based real-time question and answer service
Community-based question and answer (Q&A) systems facilitate information exchange and enable the creation of reusable knowledge repositories. While these systems are growing i...
Gary Hsieh, Scott Counts
ESWA
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
A weighted string pattern matching-based passage ranking algorithm for video question answering
Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee
TCSV
2008
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13 years 9 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
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 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...
NAACL
2003
13 years 10 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