On-line discussion is a popular form of web-based computer-mediated communication and is an important medium for distance education. Automatic tools for analyzing online discussion...
Named Entity (NE) recognition is a task in which proper nouns and numerical information are extracted from documents and are classified into categories such as person, organizatio...
In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...
In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS-04), Springer-Verlag LNAI 3055, pp. 203-216. c 2004 by Springer-Verlag. To model qu...
Automatic tools for analyzing student online discussions are highly desirable for better assistance and scaffolding. This paper presents an approach for automatically identifying s...