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ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
NAACL
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A few bad votes too many?: towards robust ranking in social media
Online social media draws heavily on active reader participation, such as voting or rating of news stories, articles, or responses to a question. This user feedback is invaluable ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
ITRUST
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...
ASWC
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Miriam Ferná...