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IR
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
IUI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
15 years 7 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
BIBE
2007
IEEE
169views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
16 years 16 days ago
Combining Semantics, Context, and Statistical Evidence in Genomics Literature Search
—We present an information retrieval model for combining evidence from concept-based semantics, term statistics, and context for improving search precision of genomics literature...
Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo