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ERCIMDL
2007
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Ontology-Based Question Answering for Digital Libraries
Abstract. In this paper we present an approach to question answering over heterogeneous knowledge sources that makes use of different ontology management components within the sce...
Stephan Bloehdorn, Philipp Cimiano, Alistair Duke,...
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
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BMCBI
2006
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14 years 10 months ago
Exploring supervised and unsupervised methods to detect topics in biomedical text
Background: Topic detection is a task that automatically identifies topics (e.g., "biochemistry" and "protein structure") in scientific articles based on infor...
Minsuk Lee, Weiqing Wang, Hong Yu
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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
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TREC
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...