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ACL
2003
15 years 3 months ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...
TREC
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden
ISIPTA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Conservative Rules for Predictive Inference with Incomplete Data
This paper addresses the following question: how should we update our beliefs after observing some incomplete data, in order to make credible predictions about new, and possibly i...
Marco Zaffalon
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EMNLP
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell