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VOSS
2004
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic Automata: System Types, Parallel Composition and Comparison
We survey various notions of probabilistic automata and probabilistic bisimulation, accumulating in an expressiveness hierarchy of probabilistic system types. The aim of this paper...
Ana Sokolova, Erik P. de Vink
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Answer typing for information retrieval
Answer typing is commonly thought of as finding appropriate responses to given questions. We extend the notion of answer typing to information retrieval to ensure results contain...
Christopher Pinchak, Davood Rafiei, Dekang Lin
VLDB
2007
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data
Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications. Although a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to modeling uncertain data and answering some types of qu...
Jian Pei, Bin Jiang, Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...