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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Answering common questions about code
Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
Thomas D. LaToza
TREC
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Question Answering by Searching Large Corpora With Linguistic Methods
In this paper we describe the QuALiM Question Answering system which uses linguistic analysis of questions as well as candidate sentences in its answer finding process. To this en...
Michael Kaißer, Tilman Becker
MEDINFO
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
How do Clinicians Search For and Access Biomedical Literature to Answer Clinical Questions?
This paper presents a retrospective data analysis on how 75 clinicians searched for and accessed biomedical literature from an online information retrieval system to answer six cl...
Annie Y. S. Lau, Enrico W. Coiera
EMNLP
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...