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EMNLP
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...
JCDL
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Named entity normalization in user generated content
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Mar...
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Entity ranking using Wikipedia as a pivot
In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
TREC
2008
15 years 1 months ago
The Impact of Positive, Negative and Topical Relevance Feedback
Abstract This document contains a description of experiments for the 2008 Relevance Feedback track. We experiment with different amounts of feedback, including negative relevance f...
Rianne Kaptein, Jaap Kamps, Djoerd Hiemstra