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SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
TASLP
2008
201views more  TASLP 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Syntactically Lexicalized Phrase-Based SMT
Abstract--Until quite recently, extending Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) with syntactic knowledge caused system performance to deteriorate. The most recent su...
Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way