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DSS
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Leveraging Question Answer technology to address terrorism inquiry
This paper investigates the potential use of dialog-based ALICEbots in disseminating terrorism information to the general public. In particular, we study the acceptance and respon...
Robert P. Schumaker, Hsinchun Chen
NAACL
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown
INEX
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
If INEX Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
The INEX query languages allow the extraction of fragments from selected documents. This power is not much used in INEX queries. The paper suggests reasons why, and considers which...
Richard A. O'Keefe
AWIC
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems - The Need for New Tools
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh