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TREC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Resources to Find Answers to Biomedical Questions
One of the NLM experimental approaches to the 2007 Genomics track question answering task followed the track evaluation design: we attempted identifying exact answers in the form ...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval
The Question Answering Task requires user interaction. Users can help the system by reformulating the questions, adding information to them or selecting the documents on which the ...
Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodr&iac...
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra