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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The effect of document retrieval quality on factoid question answering performance
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Egidio L. Te...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
TREC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou