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LREC
2010
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Fine-grained Linguistic Evaluation of Question Answering Systems
Question answering systems are complex systems using natural language processing. Some evaluation campaigns are organized to evaluate such systems in order to propose a classifica...
Sarra El Ayari, Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat
NAACL
2004
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A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
CICLING
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
PAKDD
2010
ACM
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Answer Diversification for Complex Question Answering on the Web
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Ch...
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TREC
2004
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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