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TREC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev
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...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Answering Opinion Questions with Random Walks on Graphs
Opinion Question Answering (Opinion QA), which aims to find the authors' sentimental opinions on a specific target, is more challenging than traditional factbased question an...
Fangtao Li, Yang Tang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Topic evolution and social interactions: how authors effect research
We propose a method for discovering the dependency relationships between the topics of documents shared in social networks using the latent social interactions, attempting to answ...
Ding Zhou, Xiang Ji, Hongyuan Zha, C. Lee Giles