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AIRS
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Syntactic Parsing with Hierarchical Modeling
Abstract. This paper proposes a hierarchical model to parse both English and Chinese sentences. This is done by iteratively constructing simple constituents first, so that complex...
Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu, Peide Qian
SPIRE
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Dealing with Syntactic Variation Through a Locality-Based Approach
To date, attempts for applying syntactic information in the document-based retrieval model dominant have led to little practical improvement, mainly due to the problems associated ...
Jesús Vilares Ferro, Miguel A. Alonso
CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 4 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
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 Track
Abstract. In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational ling...
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues