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AIIA
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts Using Minimal Syntactic Analysis
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu
LREC
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
A Corpus for Studying Full Answer Justification
Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau, Olivier Ferret, Cyri...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...