Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
On term selection for query expansion
Journal of Documentation
WordNet: a lexical database for English
Communications of the ACM
On relevance weights with little relevance information
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving automatic query expansion
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Results and challenges in Web search evaluation
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Indexing and retrieval of scientific literature
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Improving the effectiveness of information retrieval with local context analysis
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Elicitation queries to the excite Web search engine
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Retrieving descriptive phrases from large amounts of free text
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Scaling question answering to the Web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Mining the web for answers to natural language questions
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search
IEEE Internet Computing
A Real World Implementation of Answer Extraction
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Improving Category Specific Web Search by Learning Query Modifications
SAINT '01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001)
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
A simple rule-based part of speech tagger
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
Role of verbs in document analysis
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Experiments with open-domain textual Question Answering
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Experiments in automated lexicon building for text searching
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Learning how to answer questions using trivia games
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Statistical answer-type identification in open-domain question answering
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
The infocious web search engine: improving web searching through linguistic analysis
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
Information Retrieval
An exploration of the principles underlying redundancy-based factoid question answering
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Quality-aware collaborative question answering: methods and evaluation
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Automatic keyword prediction using Google similarity distance
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Model tree learning for query term weighting in question answering
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Word AdHoc Network: Using Google Core Distance to extract the most relevant information
Knowledge-Based Systems
Using Google latent semantic distance to extract the most relevant information
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
How to extract Arabic definitions from the web? Arabic definition question answering system
NLDB'11 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Natural language processing and information systems
Human-machine design considerations in advanced machine-learning systems
IBM Journal of Research and Development
A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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
Direct answers for search queries in the long tail
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We introduce a method for learning to find documents on the Web that contain answers to a given natural language question. In our approach, questions are transformed into new queries aimed at maximizing the probability of retrieving answers from existing information retrieval systems. The method involves automatically learning phrase features for classifying questions into different types, automatically generating candidate query transformations from a training set of question/answer pairs, and automatically evaluating the candidate transformations on target information retrieval systems such as real-world general purpose search engines. At run-time, questions are transformed into a set of queries, and reranking is performed on the documents retrieved. We present a prototype search engine, Tritus, that applies the method to Web search engines. Blind evaluation on a set of real queries from a Web search engine log shows that the method significantly outperforms the underlying search engines, and outperforms a commercial search engine specializing in question answering. Our methodology cleanly supports combining documents retrieved from different search engines, resulting in additional improvement with a system that combines search results from multiple Web search engines.