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ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Passage Retrieval Approaches for Question Answering
Automatic open domain question answering (QA) has been the focus of much recent research, stimu
Ian Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
INEX
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
If INEX Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
The INEX query languages allow the extraction of fragments from selected documents. This power is not much used in INEX queries. The paper suggests reasons why, and considers which...
Richard A. O'Keefe
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
ICADL
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Jian Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu