A statistical approach to machine translation
Computational Linguistics
Statistical methods for speech recognition
Statistical methods for speech recognition
Improving automatic query expansion
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Information retrieval as statistical translation
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Question-answering by predictive annotation
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Statistics-Based Summarization - Step One: Sentence Compression
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Computational Linguistics
Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
A stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted text
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Distributional clustering of English words
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Headline generation based on statistical translation
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The Candide system for machine translation
HLT '94 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
Getting answers to natural language questions on the web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
On the MSE robustness of batching estimators
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Web-scale information extraction in knowitall: (preliminary results)
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Is question answering an acquired skill?
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Learning to find answers to questions on the Web
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
FADA: find all distinct answers
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ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Probabilistic question answering on the Web: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Sampling search-engine results
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Domain-specific FAQ retrieval using independent aspects
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Is it the right answer?: exploiting web redundancy for Answer Validation
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Synonymous collocation extraction using translation information
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
An analysis of the AskMSR question-answering system
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
Optimizing synonym extraction using monolingual and bilingual resources
PARAPHRASE '03 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Paraphrasing - Volume 16
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
Information Retrieval
Open-domain question: answering
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Semantic verification in an online fact seeking environment
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Lexical and Semantic Resources for NLP: From Words to Meanings
KES '08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part III
Exploring models for semantic category verification
Information Systems
Exploring models for semantic category verification
Information Systems
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
Intelligent answering location questions from the web using molecular alignment
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
'How may I help you'-spoken queries for technical assistance
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Versatile question answering systems: seeing in synthesis
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Automatic acquisition of semantic-based question reformulations for question answering
CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Machine learning for query formulation in question answering
Natural Language Engineering
Web-based unsupervised learning for query formulation in question answering
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Using semantic constraints to improve question answering
NLDB'06 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
A case study of using web search statistics: case restoration
CICLing'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Web-Based multiple choice question answering for english and arabic questions
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
A KE-LSA approach for user-centered design
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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The web is now becoming one of the largest information and knowledge repositories. Many large scale search engines (Google, Fast, Northern Light, etc.) have emerged to help users find information. In this paper, we study how we can effectively use these existing search engines to mine the Web and discover the "correct" answers to factual natural language questions.We propose a probabilistic algorithm called QASM (Question Answering using Statistical Models) that learns the best query paraphrase of a natural language question. We validate our approach for both local and web search engines using questions from the TREC evaluation. We also show how this algorithm can be combined with another algorithm (AnSel) to produce precise answers to natural language questions.