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SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Exploring Syntactic Relation Patterns for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we explore the syntactic relation patterns for opendomain factoid question answering. We propose a pattern extraction method to extract the various relatio...
Dan Shen, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Dietrich Klakow
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 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,...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Optimizing the Retrieval of Pertinent Answers for NL Questions with the E-Librarian Service
Abstract. There is a growing discrepancy between the creation of digital content and its actual employment and usefulness in a learning society. Technologies for recording lectures...
Serge Linckels, Harald Sack, Christoph Meinel
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke