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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
FINTAL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
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
ICADL
2004
Springer
110views Education» more  ICADL 2004»
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