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INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...
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IR
2011
14 years 8 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
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ICTAI
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Answering Complex Questions Using Query-Focused Summarization Technique
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
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IR
2010
14 years 10 months ago
FIDJI: using syntax for validating answers in multiple documents
This article presents FIDJI, a question-answering (QA) system for French. FIDJI combines syntactic information with traditional QA techniques such as named entity recognition and t...
Véronique Moriceau, Xavier Tannier
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ITRUST
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...