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ACL
2003
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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
LREC
2010
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Identification of the Question Focus: Combining Syntactic Analysis and Ontology-based Lookup through the User Interaction
Most question-answering systems contain a classifier module which determines a question category, based on which each question is assigned an answer type. However, setting up synt...
Danica Damljanovic, Milan Agatonovic, Hamish Cunni...
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
UAI
2003
15 years 1 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
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EMNLP
2008
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Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Chinese is a language that does not have morphological tense markers that provide explicit grammaticalization of the temporal location of situations (events or states). However, i...
Nianwen Xue