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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,...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
ANLP
2000
127views more  ANLP 2000»
14 years 11 months ago
Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal
TREC
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Passage Relevancy Through Semantic Relatedness
Questions that require answers in the form of a list of entities and the identification of diverse biological entity classes present an interesting challenge that required new app...
Luis Tari, Phan Huy Tu, Barry Lumpkin, Robert Leam...