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NSIR Question Answering System |
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NSIR
is a Question Answering System being developed by CLAIR research group at the
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The NSIR Team
Former
team member
- Hong
Qi, former PhD student, SI
- Patrick Fan, former
PhD student, now faculty member at Virginia Tech
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Related
Publictions
- Hong Qi,
Jahna Otterbacher, Adam Winkel, and Dragomir R. Radev. The University
of Michigan at TREC2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks.
In The 11th Text REtrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, November
2002.
- Dragomir
R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu, and Amardeep Grewal.
Probabilistic Question Answering from the Web. In The 11th International
World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2002.
- Dragomir
R. Radev, Hong Qi, Harris Wu, and Weiguo Fan. Evaluating Web-based
Question Answering Systems. In Demo section, LREC 2002, Las Palmas,
Spain, June 2002.
- Dragomir
R. Radev, Hong Qi, Zhiping Zheng, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Zhu
Zhang, Waiguo Fan, and John Prager. Mining the web for answers
to natural language questions. In ACM CIKM 2001: Tenth International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA,
2001.
- John Prager,
Dragomir R. Radev, and Krzysztof Czuba. Answering what-is questions
by virtual annotation. In Human Language Technology Conference,
Demonstrations Section, San Diego, CA, 2001.
- John Prager,
Eric Brown, Anni Coden, and Dragomir Radev. Question-answering
by predictive annotation. In Proceedings, 23rd Annual International
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval, Athens, Greece, July 2000.
- Dragomir
R. Radev, John Prager, and Valerie Samn. Ranking potential answers
to natural language questions. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference
on Applied Natural Language Processing, Seattle, WA, May 2000.
- John Prager,
Dragomir Radev, Eric Brown, Anni Coden, and Valerie Samn. The
use of predictive annotation for question answering in TREC8.
In The eighth text retrieval conference, Gaithersburg, MD, November
1999
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Acknowledgement
We would
like to thank Mike Topper, Scott Gifford, Amardeep Grewal, Michael
Gimbel for their help.
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