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NAACL
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
HCI
2011
14 years 1 months ago
Web Resource Selection for Dialogue System Generating Natural Responses
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
Masashi Inoue, Takuya Matsuda, Shoichi Yokoyama
IUI
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
NDQA
2003
123views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
14 years 11 months ago
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski...
CORR
2004
Springer
126views Education» more  CORR 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou