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FLAIRS
2008
15 years 10 days ago
Diagnosing Natural Language Answers to Support Adaptive Tutoring
Understanding answers to open-ended explanation questions is important in intelligent tutoring systems. Existing systems use natural language techniques in essay analysis, but rev...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Charle...
ICADL
2005
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
iQA: An Intelligent Question Answering System
Question answering (QA) is the study on the methodology that returns exact answers to natural language questions. This paper attempts to increase the coverage and accuracy of QA sy...
Zhiguo Gong, Mei Pou Chan
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
CICLING
2007
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
The Negative Effect of Machine Translation on Cross-Lingual Question Answering
This paper presents a study of the negative effect of Machine Translation (MT) on the precision of Cross
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández
CICLING
2008
Springer
15 years 3 hour ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...