Abstract. In this paper, we explore the syntactic relation patterns for opendomain factoid question answering. We propose a pattern extraction method to extract the various relatio...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
A half-day single track workshop is designed to gather academic researchers and industrial practitioners at to share ideas and knowledge of know-how, and to discuss all relevant i...