[PDF] Interactive Question Answering
[PDF] from upenn.eduQ Answering - 2006 - acl.ldc.upenn.edu
In moving from factoid Question Answering (QA) to answering complex questions, it has
become apparent that insufficient attention has been paid to the user's role in the process,
other than as a source of one-shot factual questions or at best a sequence of related ...
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Experiments with interactive question-answering
[PDF] from upenn.eduS Harabagiu, A Hickl, J Lehmann... - Proceedings of the 43rd ..., 2005 - dl.acm.org
Abstract This paper describes a novel framework for interactive question-answering (Q/A)
based on predictive questioning. Generated off-line from topic representations of complex
scenarios, predictive questions represent requests for information that capture the most ...
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Semantic patterns for user-interactive question answering
T Hao, D Hu, L Wenyin... - ... and Computation: Practice ..., 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A new type of semantic pattern is proposed in this paper, which can be used by users to post
questions and answers in user-interactive question answering (QA) systems. The necessary
procedures of using semantic patterns in a QA system are also presented, which include ...
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Designing an interactive open-domain question answering system
[PDF] from york.ac.ukS Quarteroni... - Natural Language Engineering, 2009 - dl.acm.org
... Interactive question answering (QA), where a dialogue interface enables follow-up and clarification
questions, is a recent although long-advocated field of research. ... In Proceedings of the Interactive
Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006 (IQA'06), New York, USA. ...
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HITIQA: an interactive question answering system a preliminary report
[PDF] from upenn.eduS Small, T Liu, N Shimizu... - Proceedings of the ACL ..., 2003 - dl.acm.org
Abstract HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow
intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural
language and obtain relevant answers, or the assistance they require in order to perform ...
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A user reputation model for a user-interactive question answering system
[PDF] from knowledgegrid.netW Chen, Q Zeng, L Wenyin... - ... and Computation: Practice ..., 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this paper, we propose a user reputation model and apply it to a user-interactive
question answering system. It combines the social network analysis approach and the user
rating approach. Social network analysis is applied to analyze the impact of participant ...
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[PDF] Experiments with Interactive Question-Answering in Complex Scenarios
[PDF] from upenn.eduA Hickl, J Lehmann, J Williams... - Proceedings of the ..., 2004 - acl.ldc.upenn.edu
Abstract This paper addresses the pragmatic challenges that state-of-the-art
question/answering systems face in trying to decompose complex information-seeking
scenarios. We propose that question decomposition can be approached in one of two ...
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A web-based platform for user-interactive question-answering
L Wenyin, T Hao, W Chen... - World Wide Web, 2009 - Springer
Abstract A user-interactive question-answering (QA) platform named BuyAns (at www.
buyans. com) is presented. The platform is a special kind of online community and mainly
features a rewarding scheme for answering questions among all users, a pattern-based ...
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FERRET: interactive question-answering for real-world environments
[PDF] from upenn.eduA Hickl, P Wang, J Lehmann... - Proceedings of the ..., 2006 - dl.acm.org
Abstract This paper describes FERRET, an interactive question-answering (Q/A) system
designed to address the challenges of integrating automatic Q/A applications into real-world
environments. FERRET utilizes a novel approach to Q/A-known as predictive questioning- ...
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User-centered evaluation of interactive question answering systems
[PDF] from upenn.eduD Kelly, PB Kantor, EL Morse, J Scholtz... - ... Question Answering ..., 2006 - dl.acm.org
Abstract We describe a large-scale evaluation of four interactive question answering system
with real users. The purpose of the evaluation was to develop evaluation methods and
metrics for interactive QA systems. We present our evaluation method as a case study, ...
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HITIQA: High-quality intelligence through interactive question answering
S Small... - Natural Language Engineering, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Abstract We describe an interactive question answering system, HITIQA, which helps users
find answers to complex analytical problems. Such problems often necessitate the user to
submit not one but an entire series of questions, both simple and complex, and then to ...
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Interactive question answering and constraint relaxation in spoken dialogue systems
[PDF] from upenn.eduS Varges, F Weng... - ... of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on ..., 2009 - dl.acm.org
Abstract We explore the relationship between question answering and constraint relaxation
in spoken dialog systems. We develop dialogue strategies for selecting and presenting
information succinctly. In particular, we describe methods for dealing with the results of ...
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[PDF] A data driven approach to interactive question answering
[PDF] from albany.eduS Small, T Strzalkowski, T Liu... - Future Directions in ..., 2004 - ils.albany.edu
Abstract HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow
intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural
language and obtain relevant answers, or the assistance they require in order to perform ...
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HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
[PDF] from albany.eduS Small, N Shimizu, T Strzalkowski... - AAAI 2003 Spring Symposium ..., 2003 - aaai.org
Abstract HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow
intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural
language and obtain relevant, factual answers, or the assistance they require in order to ...
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Does this list contain what you were searching for? Learning adaptive dialogue strategies for interactive question answering
[PDF] from ed.ac.ukV Rieser... - Natural Language Engineering, 2009 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Policy learning is an active topic in dialogue systems research, but it has not been
explored in relation to interactive question answering (IQA). We take a first step in learning
adaptive interaction policies for question answering: we address the question of how to ...
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Woz simulation of interactive question answering
[PDF] from upenn.eduT Kato, F Masui, J Fukumoto... - ... Interactive Question Answering ..., 2006 - dl.acm.org
Abstract QACIAD (Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogue) is an
evaluation framework for measuring interactive question answering (QA) technologies. It
assumes that users interactively collect information using a QA system for writing a report ...
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[PDF] An evaluation of spoken and textual interaction in the RITEL interactive question answering system
[PDF] from brandeis.eduD Toney, S Rosset, A Max... - Proceedings of the ..., 2008 - pages.cs.brandeis.edu
Abstract The RITEL project aims to integrate a spoken language dialogue system and an
open-domain information retrieval system in order to enable human users to ask a general
question and to refine their search for information interactively. This type of system is often ...
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[PDF] A chatbotbased interactive question answering system
[PDF] from artstein.orgS Quarteroni... - Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the ..., 2007 - artstein.org
Abstract Interactive question answering (QA) systems, where a dialogue interface enables
followup and clarification questions, are a recent field of research. We report our experience
on the design, implementation and evaluation of a chatbot-based dialogue interface for ...
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Interactive question answering: Is Cross-Language harder than monolingual searching?
F López-Ostenero, V Peinado, J Gonzalo... - Information Processing & ..., 2008 - Elsevier
Is Cross-Language answer finding harder than Monolingual answer finding for users? In this
paper we provide initial quantitative and qualitative evidence to answer this question. In our
study, which involves 16 users searching questions under four different system conditions, ...
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MRPPS-An interactive refutation proof procedure system for question-answering
J Minker, JR McSkimin... - International Journal of Parallel ..., 1974 - Springer
... 7. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS MRPPS has been designed to be a flexible
interactive question-answering system that has three major components: 1. A set of
inference mechanisms including many refinements of resolution. ...
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Using interview data to identify evaluation criteria for interactive, analytical question-answering systems
[PDF] from rutgers.eduD Kelly, N Wacholder, R Rittman... - Journal of the ..., 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... These data were collected as part of an intensive, three-day evaluation workshop of
the High-Quality Interactive Question Answering (HITIQA) system. Inductive coding
and memoing were used to identify and categorize these data. ...
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Improving complex interactive question answering with wikipedia anchor text
[PDF] from uwaterloo.caI MacKinnon... - Advances in Information Retrieval, 2008 - Springer
When the objective of an information retrieval task is to return a nugget rather than a
document, query terms that exist in a document will often not be used in the most relevant
information nugget in the document. In this paper, a new method of query expansion is ...
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Automatic generation of semantic patterns for user-interactive question answering
T Hao, W Song, D Hu... - Information Retrieval Technology, 2008 - Springer
An automatic method for generation of semantic patterns from free-text questions is
proposed in this paper. An evaluation method is also proposed to estimate the suitability of
the generated patterns and implemented in our user-interactive question answering (QA) ...
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[PDF] Field testing of an interactive question-answering character
[PDF] from ua.esR Artstein, S Gandhe, A Leuski... - ELRA Workshop on ..., 2008 - repository.dlsi.ua.es
1. Background We created Sergeant Star, a virtual questionanswering character, for the US
Army Recruiting Command as a hi-tech attraction and an information source about the Army.
He is a life-size character built for use in mobile exhibits, who accepts speech input and ...
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From question answering to spoken dialogue: towards an information search assistant for interactive multimodal information extraction
[PDF] from utwente.nlR Akker, H Bunt, S Keizer... - ... European Conference on ..., 2005 - isca-speech.org
... McMillan, London, 1980. [5] S. Small, T. Liu, N. Shimizu, and T. Strzalkowski, "HI- TIQA: an
interactive question answering system: A pre- liminary report," in Proceedings of the ACL 2003
Work- shop on Multilingual Summarization and Question An- swering, C.-YL Abraham ...
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Dialogue management for interactive question answering
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgS Harabagiu, M Pasca... - Proceedings of FLAIRS-2001, 2001 - aaai.org
Abstract With the increasing availability of on-line information, either on the Internet orwithin
Intranets, the need for Question Answering (Q&A) systems that allow user interaction
expressed innatural language has become critical. A major obstacle in building robust, ...
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Enhanced interactive question-answering with conditional random fields
[PDF] from upenn.eduA Hickl... - ... of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop ..., 2006 - dl.acm.org
Abstract This paper describes a new methodology for enhancing the quality and relevance
of suggestions provided to users of interactive Q/A systems. We show that by using
Conditional Random Fields to combine relevance feedback gathered from users along ...
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Evaluating interactive question answering
W Hersh - Advances in Open Domain Question Answering, 2006 - Springer
This volume is filled with a variety of innovative approaches to helping users answer
questions. In much of the research, however, one part of the solution is missing, namely the
user. This chapter describes evaluation of interactive question answering with a focus on ...
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[HTML] Building a multi-lingual interactive question-answering system for the library domain
[HTML] from google.comM Kirschner - Brandial'06: proceedings of the 10th Workshop on ..., 2006 - books.google.com
Lately, there has been increasing interest in how to best enrich Question-Answering (QA)
applications with dialogue capabilities1. While classical QA is concerned with questions
posed in isolation, its interactive variant keeps track of the QA process and supports the ...
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[PDF] Towards natural interactive question answering
[PDF] from uni-saarland.deG Fliedner - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference ..., 2006 - coli.uni-saarland.de
Abstract Interactive question answering systems should allow users to lead a coherent
information seeking dialogue. Compared with systems that only locally evaluate a question,
interactive systems facilitate the information seeking process and provide a more natural ...
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[CITATION] Design and Implementation of an Instant User-interactive Question Answering System [J]
D HU, E CHEN... - Journal of Chinese Computer Systems, 2008
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Questionnaires for eliciting evaluation data from users of interactive question answering systems
D Kelly, J Scholtz, Y Sun - Natural Language Engineering, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Abstract Evaluating interactive question answering (QA) systems with real users can be
challenging because traditional evaluation measures based on the relevance of items
returned are difficult to employ since relevance judgments can be unstable in multi-user ...
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Name-aware speech recognition for interactive question answering
[PDF] from berkeley.eduS Stoyanchev, G Tur... - Acoustics, Speech and ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering
application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named
entity before asking the question. Then we build a named entity specific language model ...
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Towards Interactive Question Answering: An Ontology-Based Approach
B Magnini, M Speranza... - Semantic Computing, 2009 ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract The ability to provide both rich and natural answers with respect to a given
question, and clear explanations for failures, is a crucial aspect for a future generation of
question answering systems able to interact with a user. We argue that such abilities are ...
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Question recommendation for user-interactive question answering systems
D Hu, S GU, S Wang, L Wenyin... - Proceedings of the 2nd ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
Abstract A balanced question recommendation mechanism for user-interactive question
answering (QA) systems is proposed to automatically recommend a new question to suitable
users to answer. In this mechanism, a user modeling method is used to estimate the ...
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[PDF] Identifying relationships between entities in text for complex interactive question answering task
[PDF] from psu.eduO Vechtomova... - Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval ..., 2006 - Citeseer
In this paper we describe our participation in the Complex Interactive Question Answering
(ciQA) task of the QA track. We investigated the use of lexical cohesive ties (called lexical
bonds) between sentences containing different question entities in finding information ...
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Ontological modeling for interactive question answering
[PDF] from uni-ulm.deR Basili, D De Cao... - ... conference on On the move to ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
Abstract This paper proposes a model for ontological representation supporting task-
oriented dialog. The adoption of our ontology representation allows to map an interactive
Question Answering (iQA) task into a knowledge based process. It supports dialog control, ...
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Data-driven dialogue for interactive question answering
R Basili, D De Cao, C Giannone... - AI* IA 2007: Artificial ..., 2007 - Springer
In this paper, a light framework for dialogue based interactive question answering is
presented. The resulting architecture is called REQUIRE (Robust Empirical QUestion
answering for Intelligent Retrieval), and represents a flexible and adaptive platform for ...
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Semantic Relations for an Oral and Interactive Question-Answering System.
[PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frJ Villaneau, S Rosset, O Galibert - 2007 - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
RITEL is an oral and QA dialogue system, which aims to enable a human to re?ne his
research interactively. Analysis is based on typing of chunks, according to several
categories: named, linguistic or speci?c entities. Since the system currently obtains ...
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[CITATION] Automatic Categorization of Questions in a User-interactive Question Answering System
WP Song, WY Liu, NJ Gu... - The first WWW Workshop on Question ..., 2008
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Automatic categorization of questions for user-interactive question answering
W Song, L Wenyin, N Gu, X Quan... - Information Processing & ..., 2011 - Elsevier
Question categorization, which suggests one of a set of predefined categories to a user's
question according to the question's topic or content, is a useful technique in user-interactive
question answering systems. In this paper, we propose an automatic method for question ...
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[CITATION] Interactive question answering proceedings of the workshop
N Webb - 2006 - HTL-NAACL
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[PDF] Advanced Techniques for Personalized, Interactive Question Answering
[PDF] from york.ac.ukS Quarteroni - 2007 - pisa.cs.york.ac.uk
Abstract Using a computer to answer questions has been a human dream since the
beginning of the digital era. A first step towards the achievement of such an ambitious goal is
to deal with natural language to enable the computer to understand what its user asks.
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[PDF] Deep analysis for an interactive question answering system
[PDF] from uni.luM Slavkovik - Master's thesis, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2007 - marija.gforge.uni.lu
Abstract The improvement of current Question Answering (QA) systems relies on finding
ways to support the traditional statistic approach to QA with logic reasoning [9]. In this thesis
we show one way of supporting an Interactive Question Answering system with logic ...
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Comparative Analysis on Service Strategies of Interactive Question Answering Platform and Net Q/A System [J]
LIU Bing - Journal of Tonghua Normal University, 2008 - en.cnki.com.cn
In recent years, the interactive question answering platform has provided a new idea for the
design of Q/A system. Through comparative analysis of interactive question answering
platform and net Q/A system in answer patterns, participating objectives, object contents ...
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Special issue on interactive question answering: Introduction
[PDF] from psu.eduN Webb... - Natural Language Engineering, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Abstract In this introduction, we present our overview of interactive question answering
(IQA). We contextualize IQA in the wider field of question answering, and establish
connections to research in Information Retrieval and Dialogue Systems. We highlight the ...
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[PDF] Designing a realistic evaluation of an end-to-end interactive question answering system
[PDF] from uib.noN Wacholder, S Small, B Bai, D Kelly... - Proceedings of the ..., 2004 - gandalf.aksis.uib.no
Abstract We report on the development of material for an evaluation exercise designed to
assess the overall design and usability of HITIQA, an interactive question-answering system
for preparing broad ranging reports on complex issues. The two basic objectives of the ...
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Instance-based generation for interactive restricted domain question answering systems
[PDF] from aclweb.orgM Denecke... - Natural Language Processing-IJCNLP 2005, 2005 - Springer
... In this paper, we are interested in generation of information seeking questions in interactive
question-answering systems. 1.1 Our System We implemented a system that combines features
of question answering systems with those of spoken dialogue systems. ...
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Latent link analysis for expert finding in user-interactive question answering services
Y Lu, X Quan, X Ni, W Liu... - Semantics, Knowledge and ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract In this paper, we propose a latent link analysis approach for improving the accuracy
of expert finding in user-interactive question answering (UIQA) services. Both direct and
latent relationship links are considered in the link analysis of the user relation graph ...
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"How Much Context Do You Need?": An Experiment About the Context Size in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
[PDF] from cnr.itB Navarro, L Moreno-Monteagudo, E Noguera... - Accessing Multilingual ..., 2006 - Springer
... In an Interactive Question Answering system, the decision about the correctness of the answer
in factotum questions (or usefulness, satisfaction, or helpfulness in analytical questions) depends
on the linguistic context in which the possible answer appears [1]. The user decides ...
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[PDF] Human question answering performance using an interactive information retrieval system
[PDF] from uwaterloo.caMD Smucker, J Allan... - Center for Intelligent ..., 2008 - mansci.uwaterloo.ca
... questions. We conducted our experiments within the framework of the TREC 2007 complex,
interactive question answering (ciQA) track. ... questions. We did not directly attempt to address
how to build an interactive question answering system. ...
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[PDF] Complex interactive question answering enhanced with Wikipedia
[PDF] from nist.govI MacKinnon... - Proc of the 16th Text Retrieval ..., 2007 - trec.nist.gov
In ciQA, templates are used with several bracketed items we call" facets" which are the basis
of information being sought. This information is returned in the form of nuggets. Due to the
concepts being sought having multiple terms to describe them, it becomes difficult to ...
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[CITATION] The Structure of Real User-System Dialogues in Interactive Question Answering
M Kirschner - 2010 - Ph. D. thesis, Free University of ...
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[PDF] On the role of discourse markers in interactive spoken question answering systems
[PDF] from lrec-conf.orgI Vasilescu, S Rosset... - LREC, Valletta, 2010 - lrec-conf.org
Page 1. On the role of discourse markers in interactive spoken question answering systems
Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Decker LIMSI-CNRS BP 133 - F-91403 ORSAY
Cedex ioana@limsi.fr, sopie.rosset@limsi.fr, madda@limsi.fr Abstract ...
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HITIQA: A data driven approach to interactive analytical question answering
[PDF] from upenn.eduS Small... - Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short ..., 2004 - dl.acm.org
... Proceedings of COLING-86, pp. 931-936. Small S., Strzalkowski T., et al. 2004. A Data
Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering. In M. Maybury (ed). Future Di-
rections in Automated Question Answering. MIT Press (to appear) ...
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[PDF] iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
[PDF] from umd.eduJ Gonzalo, DW Oard - ... forum, Working notes for the CLEF ..., 2004 - terpconnect.umd.edu
... The only similar evaluation of interactive question answering that we are aware of was the
TREC-9 interactive track [1]. The iCLEF 2004 evaluation differs from the TREC-9 interactive track
in two key ways: (1) iCLEF 2004 is focused on a cross-language task, while the TREC-9 ...
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[PDF] UMass complex interactive question answering (ciQA) 2007: Human performance as question answerers
[PDF] from nist.govMD Smucker, J Allan... - TREC 2007 Proceedings, 2008 - trec.nist.gov
Abstract Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their
questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track
to measure the performance of humans using an interactive IR system to answer ...
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Personalized, interactive question answering on the Web
[PDF] from aclweb.orgS Quarteroni - Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
Abstract Two of the current issues of Question Answering (QA) systems are the lack of
personalization to the individual users' needs, and the lack of interactivity by which at the
end of each Q/A session the context of interaction is lost.
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[PDF] From artificial questions to real user interaction logs: Real challenges for Interactive Question Answering systems
[PDF] from essex.ac.ukR Bernardi... - The Workshop Programme, 2010 - csee.essex.ac.uk
Abstract Much research in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) has centered on artificially
collected series of context questions. Instead, the goal of this paper is to emphasize the
importance of evaluating IQA systems against realistic user questions. We do this by ...
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Web-Based User-Interactive Question-Answering Method and System
W Liu - US Patent App. 12/095,126, 2006 - Google Patents
The disclosed subject matter consists of a system, a website, and their supporting methods
for user-interactive question answering. The system consists of a pattern database to store
question/answer patterns for users to select when asking/answering questions. Each ...
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iCLEF 2004 track overview: Pilot experiments in interactive cross-language question answering
J Gonzalo... - Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and ..., 2005 - Springer
... The only similar evaluation of interactive question answering that we are aware of was the
TREC-9 interactive track [1]. The iCLEF 2004 evaluation differs from the TREC-9 interactive track
in two key ways: (1) iCLEF 2004 is focused on a cross- language task, while the TREC-9 ...
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Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006}
T Kato, J Fukumoto, F Masui, N Kando... - ... Question Answering ..., 2006 - aclweb.org
@Book{IQA:2006, editor = {Nick Webb}, title = {Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering
Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006}, month = {June}, year = {2006}, address = {New York City, NY,
USA}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, url = {http://www ...
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[CITATION] Semantic Pattern-Based User Interactive Question Answering: User Interface Design and Evaluation
T Hao, W Liu... - International Journal of Human Computer Interaction ( ...
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A short text modeling method and its applications in an interactive question answering system
M Feng - 2007 - dspace.cityu.edu.hk
Text similarity measures play an increasingly important role in text-related research and
application areas such as text mining, Web information retrieval, and question answering.
Most existing methods for computing text similarity are only suitable for long text ...
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Fundamental Studies on Generation of Questions to Users in an Interactive Question Answering System
K SHIRAI... - IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2005 - sciencelinks.jp
Abstract; This paper describes a concept of an open-domain interactive question answering
system. When an user inputs an ambiguous question, this system asks him/her back and
selects an appropriate answer according to his/her response. This paper also proposes a ...
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[PDF] IQABOT: A Chatbot-Based Interactive Question-Answering System
[PDF] from smithware.co.ukJ Smith - 2010 - smithware.co.uk
Abstract Interactive question-answering programmes provide an environment wherein a
user is encouraged to interact with the question-answering system in a manner which
should facilitate the expedient retrieval of information and sometimes even related ...
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[DOC] Semantic Patterns Generation for User-Interactive Question Answering
[DOC] from cityu.edu.hkT Hao, G Liu... - cs.cityu.edu.hk
ABSTRACT An automatic method for generation of semantic patterns from free-text
questions is proposed in this paper. An evaluation method is also proposed to estimate the
suitability of the generated patterns and implemented in our user-interactive question ...
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Experiments with Interactive Question-Answering
A Hickl, J Lehmann, J Williams... - In Proceedings of the 43rd ..., 2005 - Citeseer
Abstract: This paper addresses the pragmatic challenges that state-of-the-art
question/answering systems face in trying to decompose complex information-seeking
scenarios. We propose that question decomposition can be approached in one of two ...
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[PDF] Semantic Pattern for User-Interactive Question Answering
[PDF] from semgrid.netTHQ Zeng... - semgrid.net
Abstract A new semantic pattern is proposed in this paper, which can be used by users to
post questions and answers in user-interactive question answering (QA) system. The
necessary procedures of using semantic pattern in a QA system are also presented, which ...
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[PDF] UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers [Notebook Version]
[PDF] from umass.eduMD Smucker, J Allan... - maroo.cs.umass.edu
Abstract Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their
questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track
to measure the performance of humans using an interactive IR system to answer ...
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[PDF] Applying a Focus Tree Model of Dialogue Context to Interactive Question Answering
[PDF] from tcd.ieM Kirschner - Twelfth ESSLLI Student Session, 2007 - scss.tcd.ie
Abstract. In Interactive Question Answering (IQA), dialogue context is needed to resolve
context-dependent discourse phenomena, which occur relatively frequently in these
dialogues. A focus tree is one viable model for representing dialogue context. We present ...
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[PDF] iCL¥ F 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering Daqing He,* Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo,* and Douglas W. ...
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... Our initial results from these first experiments with interactive question answering are indeed
promising, but there are many interesting questions that remain to be explored. The first and most
obvious is how our systems might be tailored to better support this task. ...
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An architecture of interactive question answering for online diagnosing fault
ZF Wang, Y Chen... - Computer Engineering and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract IQA system has been attracted by researchers in recent years. Through interactive
dialogue with the user, IQA systems can gradually clear the real intention of the user's
questions. In this paper, we introduced an architecture of IQA system which is based on an ...
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[CITATION] GyanMantra: An Interactive Question Answering System
H Ghosh, D Malik... - IICAI, 2003
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Research on Relevance Recognition of Question for Interactive Question Answering
D WU, Y ZHANG... - Journal of Chinese Information ..., 2010 - en.cnki.com.cn
Interactive question answering (IQA) is a kind of QA technology that is able to process a
series of coherent questions and interact with users by the means of dialogue, Being a hot
research topic in the area of QA, though. IQA is less touched in Chinese to our knowledge. ...
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Ontology-Based Interactive Question and Answering System
L Liu, Q Qi... - Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... IV. COMPUTER FAULT DIAGNOSIS INTERACTIVE QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM A. Forms
of knowledgebase Computer fault diagnosis interactive question answering system (CFDIQA)
is one of applications of IQA in computer fault diagnosis domain. ...
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Experiments with Interactive Question Answering in Complex Scenarios Andrew Hickl, John Lehmann, John Williams and Sanda Harabagiu.......................... 60 ...
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Strategies for Advanced Question Answering Sanda Harabagiu and Finley Lacatusu . . . . . . .
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Semantics and Probabilistic Inference Srini Narayanan and Sanda Harabagiu . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Applications of short text similarity assessment in user-interactive question answering
[PDF] from cityu.edu.hkW Song - 2010 - dspace.cityu.edu.hk
? With the dramatic development of the Internet and the emergency of Web 2.0, Question
Answering (QA) becomes a new Information Retrieval (IR) technology. Unlike search
engines, which return a lot of relevant documents, QA systems give one or several exact ...
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Organization of Search Results for Interactive Question Answering
M Wu - 2002 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 36051879. Organization of search results for interactive question answering
(2002). Wu, Mingfang. Abstract. Typescript (photocopy) "A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy" Bibliography: p. 147-161. Details der Publikation. ...
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User interest modeling and its application for question recommendation in user-interactive question answering systems
X Ni, Y Lu, X Quan, L Wenyin... - Information Processing & ..., 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper, we propose a generative model, the Topic-based User Interest (TUI)
model, to capture the user interest in the User-Interactive Question Answering (UIQA)
systems. Specifically, our method aims to model the user interest in the UIQA systems with ...
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Interactive question answering for interrogating legal documents
MF Moens - Proceedings of the JURIX 2003 workshop on ..., 2003 - lirias.kuleuven.be
... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Interactive question answering for interrogating
legal documents. Authors: Moens, Marie-Francine ×. Issue Date: 2003. Publisher:
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