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AIIA
2007
Springer
16 years 17 days ago
User Modelling for Personalized Question Answering
In this paper, we address the problem of personalization in question answering (QA). We describe the personalization component of YourQA, our web-based QA system, which creates ind...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
AAAI
1994
15 years 7 months ago
Automated Modeling for Answering Prediction Questions: Selecting the Time Scale and System Boundary
The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
Jeff Rickel, Bruce W. Porter
SYNTHESE
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Model structure adequacy analysis: selecting models on the basis of their ability to answer scientific questions
Models carry the meaning of science. This puts a tremendous burden on the process of model selection. In general practice, models are selected on the basis of their relative goodne...
Mark L. Taper, David F. Staples, Bradley B. Shepar...
IPM
2007
100views more  IPM 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
User simulations for evaluating answers to question series
Recently, question series have become one focus of research in question answering. These series are comprised of individual factoid, list, and “other” questions organized arou...
Jimmy J. Lin