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ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
IRI
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Biological question answering with syntactic and semantic feature matching and an improved mean reciprocal ranking measurement
Specific information on biomolecular events such as protein-protein and gene-protein interactions is essential for molecular biology researchers. However, the results derived by c...
Ryan T. K. Lin, Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Hong-Jie Dai...
WWW
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Using Semantic Relatedness and Word Sense Disambiguation for (CL)IR
In this paper we report the experiments for the CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD task, both for the monolingual (English) and the bilingual (Spanish to English) subtasks. Our main experimenta...
Eneko Agirre, Arantxa Otegi, Hugo Zaragoza