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ICADL
2004
Springer
110views Education» more  ICADL 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Jian Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
ACL
2009
13 years 3 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...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
115views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2009»
14 years 4 days ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli
DAARC
2007
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  DAARC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
"Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question Answering Series
Abstract. The capability of handling anaphora is becoming a key feature for Question Answering systems, as it can play a crucial role at different stages of the QA loop. At the qu...
Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov
SDM
2010
SIAM
146views Data Mining» more  SDM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Finding Valuable Topics
Enterprises depend on their information workers finding valuable information to be productive. However, existing enterprise search and recommendation systems can exploit few studi...
Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin