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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...