There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...
This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
This paper describes the work done by the RFIA group at the Departamento de Sistemas Inform´aticos y Computaci´on of the Universidad Polit´ecnica of Valencia for the 2007 editio...
Davide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Em...
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...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...