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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Jimmy J. Lin
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
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
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The role of context in question answering systems
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Syntactic features in question answering
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Xiaoyan Li