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NDQA
2003
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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...
ICADL
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
iQA: An Intelligent Question Answering System
Question answering (QA) is the study on the methodology that returns exact answers to natural language questions. This paper attempts to increase the coverage and accuracy of QA sy...
Zhiguo Gong, Mei Pou Chan
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
DKE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi