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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
15 years 3 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Name-aware speech recognition for interactive question answering
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Z...
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ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Fast and effective kernels for relational learning from texts
In this paper, we define a family of syntactic kernels for automatic relational learning from pairs of natural language sentences. We provide an efficient computation of such mode...
Alessandro Moschitti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
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IR
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill