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CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
LREC
2010
180views Education» more  LREC 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
A Comprehensive Resource to Evaluate Complex Open Domain Question Answering
We describe two corpora of question and answer pairs collected for complex, open-domain Question Answering (QA) to enable answer classification and re-ranking experiments. We deli...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alessandro Moschitti
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
CORR
2000
Springer
107views Education» more  CORR 2000»
14 years 9 months ago
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...