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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
FINTAL
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
MM
2003
ACM
160views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
15 years 2 months ago
VideoQA: question answering on news video
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
Hui Yang, Lekha Chaisorn, Yunlong Zhao, Shi-Yong N...
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CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
NDQA
2003
129views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
14 years 11 months ago
Knowledge Tracking: Answering Implicit Questions
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...