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CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
NDQA
2003
123views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 7 months ago
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski...
TCSV
2008
113views more  TCSV 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
A Robust Passage Retrieval Algorithm for Video Question Answering
In this paper, we present a robust passage retrieval algorithm to extend the conventional text question answering (Q/A) to videos. Users interact with our videoQ/A system through n...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
ISCI
2007
142views more  ISCI 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic passage segmentation based on sentence topics for question answering
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Myung-Gil Jang
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...