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AI
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Answer Formulation for Question-Answering
In this paper, we describe our experimentations in answer formulation for question-answering (QA) systems. In the context of QA, answer formulation can serve two purposes: improvin...
Leila Kosseim, Luc Plamondon, Louis-Julien Guillem...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Unsupervised Learning for Query Formulation in Question Answering
Yi-Chia Wang, Jian-Cheng Wu, Tyne Liang, Jason S. ...
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
DKE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...