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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
ACSC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
FINTAL
2006
13 years 9 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
TCSV
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
A Robust Passage Retrieval Algorithm for Video Question Answering
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
NDQA
2003
123views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 6 months ago
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski...