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JCST
2008
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New Information Distance Measure and Its Application in Question Answering System
In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li
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COCOON
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Information Distance from a Question to an Answer
We provide three key missing pieces of a general theory of information distance [3, 23, 24]. We take bold steps in formulating a revised theory to avoid some pitfalls in practical...
Ming Li
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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Questions in, knowledge in?: a study of naver's question answering community
Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
Kevin Kyung Nam, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
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CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
A Question-answer Distance Measure to Investigate QA System Progress
The performance of question answering system is evaluated through successive evaluations campaigns. A set of questions are given to the participating systems which are to find the...
Guillaume Bernard, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Dec...