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Answering Comparative Questions: Better than Ten-Blue-Links?

Computation and Language 2019-01-17 v1
Authors: Matthias Schildwächter , Alexander Bondarenko , Julian Zenker , Matthias Hagen , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko
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Abstract

We present CAM (comparative argumentative machine), a novel open-domain IR system to argumentatively compare objects with respect to information extracted from the Common Crawl. In a user study, the participants obtained 15% more accurate answers using CAM compared to a "traditional" keyword-based search and were 20% faster in finding the answer to comparative questions.

Keywords

information retrieval

Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.05041,
  title  = {Answering Comparative Questions: Better than Ten-Blue-Links?},
  author = {Matthias Schildwächter and Alexander Bondarenko and Julian Zenker and Matthias Hagen and Chris Biemann and Alexander Panchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05041},
  year   = {2019}
}

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In Proceeding of 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '19), March 10--14, 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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