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CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
LOGCOM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Testing the Reasoning for Question Answering Validation
Question Answering (QA) is a task that deserves more collaboration between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Representation (KR) communities, not only to introduce r...
Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Valen...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichte...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...