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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...
ACL
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Function-Based Question Classification for General QA
In contrast with the booming increase of internet data, state-of-art QA (question answering) systems, otherwise, concerned data from specific domains or resources such as search e...
Fan Bu, Xingwei Zhu, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 6 days 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 ...
ISCI
2007
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14 years 14 days ago
Semantic passage segmentation based on sentence topics for question answering
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Myung-Gil Jang
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Overview of QAST 2009
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Where in the Wikipedia Is That Answer? The XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 Task
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
TREC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden