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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Collecting a Why-Question Corpus for Development and Evaluation of an Automatic QA-System
Question answering research has only recently started to spread from short factoid questions to more complex ones. One significant challenge is the evaluation: manual evaluation i...
Joanna Mrozinski, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Sadaoki ...
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Diagnosing Natural Language Answers to Support Adaptive Tutoring
Understanding answers to open-ended explanation questions is important in intelligent tutoring systems. Existing systems use natural language techniques in essay analysis, but rev...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Charle...
AIIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Solving Italian Crosswords Using the Web
We designed and implemented a software system, called WebCrow, that represents the first solver for Italian crosswords and the first system that tackles a language game using the...
Giovanni Angelini, Marco Ernandes, Marco Gori
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli