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TREC
2007
15 years 5 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...
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CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
127
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CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation
The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2006 is aimed at evaluating systems able to decide whether the responses of a Question Answering (QA) system are correct or not. Since most of ...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jes&u...
122
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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
FADA: find all distinct answers
The wealth of information available on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers. While web-based question answering becomes an emerging topic in recent ye...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
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NAACL
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith