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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir B...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The role of context in question answering systems
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...