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DKE
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis
PAKDD
2010
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
TREC
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
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INLG
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems
Abstract. In this paper, we present a logic-based model for an accurate generation of intensional responses within a cooperative questionanswering framework. We develop several cat...
Farah Benamara