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INTERACT
2003
13 years 6 months ago
What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
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...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
LREC
2010
238views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Context Fusion: The Role of Discourse Structure and Centering Theory
Questions are not asked in isolation. Their context, viz. the preceding interactions, might be of help to understand them and retrieve the correct answer. Previous research in Int...
Raffaella Bernardi, Manuel Kirschner, Zorana Ratko...
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