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WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
BVAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Population-Based Inference Framework for Feature-Based Attention in Natural Scenes
Abstract. Vision is a crucial sensor. It provides a very rich collection of information about our environment. However, not everything in a visual scene is relevant for the task at...
Fred Henrik Hamker
UAI
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
IUI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards intelligent QA interfaces: discourse processing for context questions
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Mingyu Sun, Joyce Y. Chai
ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Analysis of Social Influence in Online Book Reviews
It has been widely recognized that online opinions constitute important informational sources for consumers and producers. The open nature of communication supported by social med...
Patty Sakunkoo, Nathan Sakunkoo