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IR
2011
15 years 1 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...
WILF
2007
Springer
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16 years 19 days ago
Exploring the Application of Fuzzy Logic and Data Fusion Mechanisms in QAS
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
Daniel Ortiz Arroyo, Hans Ulrich Christensen
AMSTERDAM
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Vagueness Facilitates Search
This paper addresses the question why language is vague. A novel answer to this question is proposed, which complements other answers suggested in the literature. It claims that va...
Kees van Deemter
CLEF
2007
Springer
16 years 21 days ago
A Supervised Learning Approach to Spanish Answer Validation
Abstract. This paper describes the results of the INAOE’s answer validation system evaluated at the Spanish track of the AVE 2007. The system is based on a supervised learning ap...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...
ACL
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction
In this paper, we explore correlation of dependency relation paths to rank candidate answers in answer extraction. Using the correlation measure, we compare dependency relations o...
Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow