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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic searching of tables in digital libraries
Tables are ubiquitous. Unfortunately, no search engine supports table search. In this paper, we propose a novel table specific searching engine, TableSeer, to facilitate the table...
Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
FINTAL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
JCDL
2006
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Automatic extraction of table metadata from digital documents
Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data in documents. In scholarly articles, they are often used to present the relationships among data and high...
Ying Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, Kun Bai
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...