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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
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...
CICLING
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Using N-Gram Models to Combine Query Translations in Cross-Language Question Answering
This paper presents a method for cross-language question answering. The method combines multiple query translations in order to improve the answering precision. The combination of ...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Luis Villaseño...
AI
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Question Answering Summarization of Multiple Biomedical Documents
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a system that automatically summarizes multiple biomedical documents relevant to a question. The system extracts biomedical and general concept...
Zhongmin Shi, Gabor Melli, Yang Wang, Yudong Liu, ...
JASIS
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Building a reusable test collection for question answering
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz