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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...
PAKDD
2010
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
CORR
2012
Springer
272views Education» more  CORR 2012»
12 years 10 days ago
Fast and Exact Top-k Search for Random Walk with Restart
Graphs are fundamental data structures and have been employed for centuries to model real-world systems and phenomena. Random walk with restart (RWR) provides a good proximity sco...
Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Makoto Nakatsuji, Makoto Onizuk...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty