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KDD
2004
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 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
JDCTA
2010
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13 years 2 days ago
A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
LREC
2010
172views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Speech Grammars for Textual Entailment Patterns in Multimodal Question Answering
Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...
Daniel Sonntag, Bogdan Sacaleanu
ESWA
2008
113views more  ESWA 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
A weighted string pattern matching-based passage ranking algorithm for video question answering
Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee