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2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
ESWS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
AquaLog: An Ontology-Portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
Vanessa Lopez, Michele Pasin, Enrico Motta
IR
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Keyword Spices: A New Method for Building Domain-Specific Web Search Engines
This paper presents a new method for building domain-specific web search engines. Previous methods eliminate irrelevant documents from the pages accessed using heuristics based on...
Satoshi Oyama, Takashi Kokubo, Toru Ishida, Teruhi...
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Robustness Of A QA System Through A Corpus Of Real-Life Questions
This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, Philippe Blache