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NAACL
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
WWW
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Distribution of relevant documents in domain-level aggregates for topic distillation
In this paper, we study the distribution of relevant documents in aggregates, formed by grouping the retrieved documents according to their domain. For each aggregate, we take int...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
CICLING
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Little Known Fact Is ... Answering Other Questions Using Interest-Markers
In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft