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NAACL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma
INTERACT
2003
14 years 11 months ago
What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
ECIR
2004
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Understanding and Summarizing Answers in Community-Based Question Answering Services
Community-based question answering (cQA) services have accumulated millions of questions and their answers over time. In the process of accumulation, cQA services assume that ques...
Yuanjie Liu, Shasha Li, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, D...