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Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond

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SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Pages 1219 - 1221

https://doi.org/10.1145/2911451.2914804

Published: 07 July 2016 Publication History

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In this tutorial, we give the audience a coherent overview of the research of question answering (QA). We first introduce a variety of QA problems proposed by pioneer researchers and briefly describe the early efforts. By contrasting with the current research trend in this domain, the audience can easily comprehend what technical problems remain challenging and what the main breakthroughs and opportunities are during the past half century. For the rest of the tutorial, we select three categories of the QA problems that have recently attracted a great deal of attention in the research community, and present the tasks with the latest technical survey. We conclude the tutorial by discussing the new opportunities and future directions of QA research.

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Wang YLi YFan JYe CChai M(2020)A survey of typical attributed graph queriesWorld Wide Web10.1007/s11280-020-00849-024:1(297-346)Online publication date: 20-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-020-00849-0
de Araujo DHentges ARigo S(2018)A Linguistic Approach to Short Query and Answer SystemsProceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3229345.3229372(1-8)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229345.3229372

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Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

July 2016

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ISBN:9781450340694

DOI:10.1145/2911451

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Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
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Northeastern University, US
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University of Strathclyde, UK
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University of Melbourne, Australia

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Wang YLi YFan JYe CChai M(2020)A survey of typical attributed graph queriesWorld Wide Web10.1007/s11280-020-00849-024:1(297-346)Online publication date: 20-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-020-00849-0
de Araujo DHentges ARigo S(2018)A Linguistic Approach to Short Query and Answer SystemsProceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3229345.3229372(1-8)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229345.3229372

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