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COLING
2002
13 years 5 months ago
Using Knowledge to Facilitate Factoid Answer Pinpointing
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 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
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Concordia University at the TREC 2007 QA Track
In this paper, we describe the system we used for the trec-2007 Question Answering Track. For factoid questions our redundancy-based approach using a modified version of aranea w...
Majid Razmara, Andrew Fee, Leila Kosseim
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Evolving XML and Dictionary Strategies for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research participated in the question answering and novelty tracks in TREC 2004. The Knowledge Management System (KMS), which provides a single interface for question answering...
Kenneth C. Litkowski