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NAACL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
Developing an Approach for Why-Question Answering
In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering why-questions. We created a data collection for research, development and evaluation of a meth...
Suzan Verberne
WWW
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
ECIR
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
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