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NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 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...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees