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Question answering

Known as: Open-domain question answering, Answer engine, Question answering system 
Question Answer (Q AND A) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is… (More)
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Natural language processing

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
VQA: Visual Question Answering
We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
AnswerBus Question Answering System
AnswerBus1 is an open-domain question answering system based on sentence level Web information retrieval. It accepts users… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering System
In this paper we explore the power of surface text patterns for open-domain question answering systems. In order to obtain an… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Question Answering in TREC
Traditional text retrieval systems return a ranked list of documents in response to a user's request. While a ranked list of… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Discovery of inference rules for question-answering
One of the main challenges in question-answering is the potential mismatch between the expressions in questions and the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
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2001
Data-Intensive Question Answering
INTRODUCTION Data-driven methods have proven to be powerful techniques for natural language processing. It is still unclear to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Exploiting Redundancy in Question Answering
Our goal is to automatically answer brief factual questions of the form ``When was the Battle of Hastings?'' or ``Who wrote… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Question-answering by predictive annotation
We present a new technique for question answering called Predictive Annotation. Predictive Annotation identifies potential… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Question Answering in Webclopedia
SHAPE ADJECTIVE COLOR DISEASE TEXT NARRATIVE* GENERAL-INFO DEFINITION USE EXPRESSION-ORIGIN HISTORY WHY-FAMOUS BIO ANTECEDENT… (More)
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