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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Extending query translation to cross-language query expansion with markov chain models
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
Guihong Cao, Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
AMTA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA
The Keyword Translator is a part of the Question Analyzer module in the JAVELIN Question-Answering system; it translates the keywords that are used to query documents and extract a...
Frank Lin, Teruko Mitamura
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
SLOQUE: slot-based query expansion for complex questions
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...