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CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 9 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...
PKDD
2009
Springer
135views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
Alessandra Giordani, Alessandro Moschitti
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...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Solving the Problem of Cascading Errors: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines
The end-to-end performance of natural language processing systems for compound tasks, such as question answering and textual entailment, is often hampered by use of a greedy 1-bes...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew ...
FQAS
2009
Springer
202views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Controlled Aggregate Tree Shaped Questions over Ontologies
Abstract. Controlled languages (CLs) are ambiguity-free subsets of natural languages such as English offering a good trade-off between the formal rigor of ontology and query langua...
Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese