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CORR
2004
Springer
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Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou
CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Language Modeling for Multi-Domain Speech-Driven Text Retrieval
We report experimental results associated with speech-driven text retrieval, which facilitates retrieving information in multiple domains with spoken queries. Since users speak co...
Katunobu Itou, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 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 ...
CICLING
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Negative Effect of Machine Translation on Cross-Lingual Question Answering
This paper presents a study of the negative effect of Machine Translation (MT) on the precision of Cross
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández