Models carry the meaning of science. This puts a tremendous burden on the process of model selection. In general practice, models are selected on the basis of their relative goodne...
Mark L. Taper, David F. Staples, Bradley B. Shepar...
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Pra...
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...