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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...
CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
DKE
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
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DSS
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Leveraging Question Answer technology to address terrorism inquiry
This paper investigates the potential use of dialog-based ALICEbots in disseminating terrorism information to the general public. In particular, we study the acceptance and respon...
Robert P. Schumaker, Hsinchun Chen