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NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
UAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...