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ITRUST
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...
WWW
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
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WWW
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WWW
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang
CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 2 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