Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better? (Make Corrections) Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Andrew Ng [cssmall.gif] Home/Search Context Related Links: DBLP View or download: mit.edu/people/jim...isetalSIGIR02.ps mit.edu/people/jimmylin/...Dumais02.pdf Cached: PS.gz PS PDF This document uses CoBlitz to cache paper downloads. If your firewall is blocking outgoing connections to port 3125, you can use these links to download local copies. PS.gz PS PDF Image Update Help From: mit.edu/people/jimmylin/p...index (more) (Enter author homepages) Rate this article: [r1.gif] [r2.gif] [r3.gif] [r4.gif] [r5.gif] (best) Comment on this article (Enter summary) Abstract: This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use a wide variety of linguistic resources. We focus instead on the redundancy available in large corpora as an important resource. We use this redundancy to simplify the query rewrites that we need to use, and to support answer mining from returned snippets. Our system performs quite well given the simplicity of the... (Update) Similar documents (at the sentence level): 8.6%: An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System - Brill, Dumais, Banko (2002) (Correct) 7.6%: Data-Intensive Question Answering - Brill, Lin, Banko, Dumais, Ng (2001) (Correct) Active bibliography (related documents): More All 3.0: The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources.. - Hui Yang And (2002) (Correct) 0.1: Is Question Answering an Acquired Skill? - Soumen (2004) (Correct) 0.1: Probabilistic Question Answering on the Web - Radev, Fan, Qi, Wu, Grewal (2002) (Correct) Similar documents based on text: More All 0.7: Overview of the TREC-9 Question Answering Track - Voorhees (2001) (Correct) 0.6: The Evaluation of Question Answering Systems: Lessons Learned.. - Voorhees (Correct) 0.6: Using Grammatical Relations, Answer Frequencies and the - World Wide Web (Correct) BibTeX entry: (Update) @misc{ dumais-web, author = "Susan Dumais and Michele Banko and Eric Brill and Jimmy Lin and Andrew Ng", title = "Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better?", url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/529681.html" } Citations (may not include all citations): 38 Scaling question answering to the Web - Kwok, Etzioni et al. - 2001 ACM DBLP 19 Question answering in Webclopedia - Hovy, Gerber et al. - 2001 DBLP 15 Learning search engine specific query transformations for qu.. - Agichtein, Lawrence et al. - 2001 ACM DBLP 6 Cormack and T (context) - Clarke - 2001 6 Cormack and T (context) - Clarke - 2002 3 Dumais and M (context) - Brill - 2002 3 Hermjakob and C (context) - Hovy - 2002 3 Coden and D (context) - Prager, Brown - 2000 3 Mining Answers from Text and Knowledge Bases (context) - Symposium - 2002 3 Blair-Goldensohn (context) - Radev, Qi et al. - 2001 3 FALCON: Boosting knowledge for question answering (context) - Harabagiu, Moldovan et al. - 2001 1 Dumais and (context) - Brill, Lin et al. - 2002 1 Collins and (context) - Abney - 2000 Documents on the same site (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/publications/index.html): More Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a.. - Katz, Yuret, Lin, .. (1999) (Correct) Indexing and Retrieving Natural Language Using Ternary Expressions - Lin (2001) (Correct) Omnibase: Uniform Access to Heterogeneous Data for .. - Katz, Felshin.. (2002) (Correct) Online articles have much greater impact More about CiteSeer.IST Add search form to your site Submit documents Feedback CiteSeer.IST - Copyright Penn State and NEC