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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums
Online forums are becoming a popular resource in the state of the art question answering (QA) systems. Because of its nature as an online community, it contains more updated knowl...
Zhonghua Qu, Yang Liu
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Approaching Question Answering by Means of Paragraph Validation
In this paper we describe the system we developed for taking part in monolingual Spanish and English tasks at ResPubliQA 2009. Our system was composed by an IR phase focused on im...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez...
TREC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...