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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
NDQA
2003
156views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Toward a Question Answering Roadmap
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Mark T. Maybury
MM
2009
ACM
174views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Comparing fact finding tasks and user survey for evaluating a video browsing tool
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek
ANLP
2000
127views more  ANLP 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal