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NAACL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
AIED
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Using Learning Decomposition to Analyze Instructional Effectiveness in the ASSISTment System
A basic question of instruction is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study determining the relative efficacy of different instructional conte...
Mingyu Feng, Neil T. Heffernan, Joseph E. Beck
ACL
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
DAGM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Parameter Estimation with Homogeneous Entities and Arbitrary Constraints
Abstract. Well known estimation techniques in computational geometry usually deal only with single geometric entities as unknown parameters and do not account for constrained obser...
Jochen Meidow, Wolfgang Förstner, Christian B...
ACL
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Named Entity Scoring for Speech Input
This paper describes a new scoring algorithm that supports comparison of linguistically annotated data from noisy sources. The new algorithm generalizes the Message Understanding ...
John D. Burger, David D. Palmer, Lynette Hirschman