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2011
12 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
SEKE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Approach to Software Testing of Machine Learning Applications
Some machine learning applications are intended to learn properties of data sets where the correct answers are not already known to human users. It is challenging to test such ML ...
Chris Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Marta Arias
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Multiple Answers for Learning Mathematical Structures from Visual Observation
Learning general truths from the observation of simple domains and, further, learning how to use this knowledge are essential capabilities for any intelligent agent to understand ...
Paulo Santos, Derek R. Magee, Anthony G. Cohn, Dav...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...