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DEXAW
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Machine Learning for Question Answering from Tabular Data
Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Learning from Message Pairs for Automatic Email Answering
Abstract. We consider the problem of learning a mapping from question to answer messages. The training data for this problem consist of pairs of messages that have been received an...
Steffen Bickel, Tobias Scheffer
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