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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 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
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...