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ACL
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Utilizing Co-Occurrence of Answers in Question Answering
In this paper, we discuss how to utilize the co-occurrence of answers in building an automatic question answering system that answers a series of questions on a specific topic in ...
Min Wu, Tomek Strzalkowski
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Finding semantically similar questions based on their answers
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
FLAIRS
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Use of Default Reasoning for Disambiguation Under Question Answering
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...
Boris Galitsky
CLIN
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Query-Based Summarization using Rhetorical Structure Theory
Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user's needs has recei...
Wauter Bosma