Retrieving and reading: A comprehensive survey on open-domain question answering

F Zhu, W Lei, C Wang, J Zheng, S Poria… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
Open-domain Question Answering (OpenQA) is an important task in Natural Language
Processing (NLP), which aims to answer a question in the form of natural language based …

Transformer models used for text-based question answering systems

K Nassiri, M Akhloufi - Applied Intelligence, 2023‏ - Springer
The question answering system is frequently applied in the area of natural language
processing (NLP) because of the wide variety of applications. It consists of answering …

KBQA: learning question answering over QA corpora and knowledge bases

W Cui, Y **ao, H Wang, Y Song, S Hwang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
Question answering (QA) has become a popular way for humans to access billion-scale
knowledge bases. Unlike web search, QA over a knowledge base gives out accurate and …

[ספר][B] Teaching and researching: Listening

M Rost - 2013‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

[ספר][B] Handbook of natural language processing

N Indurkhya, FJ Damerau - 2010‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

A survey on question answering technology from an information retrieval perspective

O Kolomiyets, MF Moens - Information Sciences, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This article provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of question answering
technology. It presents the question answering task from an information retrieval perspective …

Natural language question answering: the view from here

L Hirschman, R Gaizauskas - natural language engineering, 2001‏ - cambridge.org
As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for
automated question answering systems becomes more urgent. We need systems that allow …

[PDF][PDF] On generating characteristic-rich question sets for qa evaluation

Y Su, H Sun, B Sadler, M Srivatsa, I Gür… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - aclanthology.org
We present a semi-automated framework for constructing factoid question answering (QA)
datasets, where an array of question characteristics are formalized, including structure …

A non-factoid question-answering taxonomy

V Bolotova, V Blinov, F Scholer, WB Croft… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Non-factoid question answering (NFQA) is a challenging and under-researched task that
requires constructing long-form answers, such as explanations or opinions, to open-ended …

Cross‐Evaluation: A new model for information system evaluation

Y Sun, PB Kantor - Journal of the American Society for …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we introduce a new information system evaluation method and report on its
application to a collaborative information seeking system, AntWorld. The key innovation of …