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IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai
NAACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Assessing the Retrieval Effectiveness of a Speech : Retrieval System by Simulating Recognition Errors
We show how the recognition performance of a speech recognition component in a speech retrieval system affects the retrieval effectiveness. A speech retrieval system facilitates c...
Peter Schäuble, Ulrike Glavitsch
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
MM
2003
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
VideoQA: question answering on news video
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
Hui Yang, Lekha Chaisorn, Yunlong Zhao, Shi-Yong N...
TREC
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
Martin M. Soubbotin