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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz
LREC
2010
197views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web
After several years of development, the vision of the Semantic Web is gradually becoming reality. Large data repositories have been created and offer semantic information in a mac...
Peter Adolphs, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Hans...
CORR
1998
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 1998»
13 years 5 months ago
Bayesian Stratified Sampling to Assess Corpus Utility
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
Judith Hochberg, Clint Scovel, Timothy Thomas, Sam...
CORR
2010
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu