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LREC
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Named Entity Relation Mining using Wikipedia
Discovering relations among Named Entities (NEs) from large corpora is both a challenging, as well as useful task in the domain of Natural Language Processing, with applications i...
Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu
PAKDD
2010
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Evaluation Protocol and Tools for Question-Answering on Speech Transcripts
Question Answering (QA) technology aims at providing relevant answers to natural language questions. Most Question Answering research has focused on mining document collections co...
Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Sop...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, Chun-Keat ...
ECIR
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber