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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
CSCW
1998
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using Filtering Agents to Improve Prediction Quality in the GroupLens Research Collaborative Filtering System
Collaborative filtering systems help address information overload by using the opinions of users in a community to make personal recommendations for documents to each user. Many c...
Badrul M. Sarwar, Joseph A. Konstan, Al Borchers, ...