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EMNLP
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
DSS
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Applying question answering technology to locating malevolent online content
We have empirically compared two classes of technologies capable of locating potentially malevolent online content: 1) popular keyword searching, currently widely used by law enfo...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
TREC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...