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COCOON
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Information Distance from a Question to an Answer
We provide three key missing pieces of a general theory of information distance [3, 23, 24]. We take bold steps in formulating a revised theory to avoid some pitfalls in practical...
Ming Li
JCST
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
New Information Distance Measure and Its Application in Question Answering System
In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The QuALiM Question Answering Demo: Supplementing Answers with Paragraphs drawn from Wikipedia
This paper describes the online demo of the QuALiM Question Answering system. While the system actually gets answers from the web by querying major search engines, during presenta...
Michael Kaisser
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions
We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 8 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