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Robots can learn the right reward function by querying a human expert. Existing approaches attempt to choose questions where the robot is most uncertain about the human's response; however, they do not consider how easy it will be for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Erdem Bıyık , Malayandi Palan , Nicholas C. Landolfi , Dylan P. Losey , Dorsa Sadigh

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

Matching question-answer relations between two turns in conversations is not only the first step in analyzing dialogue structures, but also valuable for training dialogue systems. This paper presents a QA matching model considering both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Qi Jia , Mengxue Zhang , Shengyao Zhang , Kenny Q. Zhu

A question is identified with a topology on a given set of irreducible assertions. It is shown that there are three types of a question. Type-I question generates sub-question, type-II question has a definite answer and type-III question is…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Shahid Nawaz

Question Answering (QA) is a challenging topic since it requires tackling the various difficulties of natural language understanding. Since evaluation is important not only for identifying the strong and weak points of the various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Katerina Papantoniou , Yannis Tzitzikas

Recommendation system is such a platform that helps people to easily find out the things they need within a few seconds. It is implemented based on the preferences of similar users or items. In this digital era, the internet has provided us…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mahamudul Hasan , Anika Tasnim Islam , Nabila Islam

The exponential growth of information source on the web and in turn continuing technological progress of searching the information by using tools like Search Engines gives rise to many problems for the user to know which tool is best for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rajender Nath , Satinder Bal

Understanding a user's query intent behind a search is critical for modern search engine success. Accurate query intent prediction allows the search engine to better serve the user's need by rendering results from more relevant categories.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiaowei Liu , Weiwei Guo , Huiji Gao , Bo Long

The objective of this research was to find out how the two search engines Google and Bing perform when users work freely on pre-defined tasks, and judge the relevance of the results immediately after finishing their search session. In a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Sebastian Suenkler , Dirk Lewandowski

Software with natural-language user interfaces has an ever-increasing importance. However, the quality of the included Question Answering (QA) functionality is still not sufficient regarding the number of questions that are answered…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Aleksandr Gashkov , Aleksandr Perevalov , Maria Eltsova , Andreas Both

Evaluating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems remains challenging, particularly for open-ended questions that lack definitive answers and require coverage of multiple sub-topics. In this paper, we introduce a novel evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kaige Xie , Philippe Laban , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

In addition to the traditional task of getting machines to answer questions, a major research question in question answering is to create interesting, challenging questions that can help systems learn how to answer questions and also reveal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Jordan Boyd-Graber , Benjamin Börschinger

The paper presents an approach to build a question and answer system that is capable of processing the information in a large dataset and allows the user to gain knowledge from this dataset by asking questions in natural language form. Key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-07 M. R , Akram , C. P , Singhabahu , M. S. M Saad , P , Deleepa , Anupiya , Nugaliyadde , Yashas , Mallawarachchi

Various forums and question answering (Q&A) sites are available online that allow Ubuntu users to find results similar to their queries. However, searching for a result is often time consuming as it requires the user to find a specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Bijil Abraham Philip , Manas Jog , Apurv Milind Upasani

The increasing rate of information pollution on the Web requires novel solutions to tackle that. Question Answering (QA) interfaces are simplified and user-friendly interfaces to access information on the Web. However, similar to other AI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Faisal Alshargi

Many people use search engines to find online guidance to solve computer or mobile device problems. Users frequently encounter challenges in identifying effective solutions from search results, often wasting time trying ineffective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lei Ding , Jeshwanth Bheemanpally , Yi Zhang

Because the World Wide Web is a dynamic collection of information, the Web search tools (or "search engines") that index the Web are dynamic. Traditional information retrieval evaluation techniques may not provide reliable results when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Scott Nicholson

We present an open-domain Question-Answering system that learns to answer questions based on successful past interactions. We follow a pattern-based approach to Answer-Extraction, where (lexico-syntactic) patterns that relate a question to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Ana Cristina Mendes , Luísa Coheur , Sérgio Curto

The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the world and researchers are struggling to effectively combat it. One reason why the fight is difficult is due to the lack of information and knowledge. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jinhyuk Lee , Sean S. Yi , Minbyul Jeong , Mujeen Sung , Wonjin Yoon , Yonghwa Choi , Miyoung Ko , Jaewoo Kang

This paper presents an approach to enhance search engines with information about word senses available in WordNet. The approach exploits information about the conceptual relations within the lexical-semantic net. In the wrapper for search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter M. Kruse , Andre Naujoks , Dietmar Roesner , Manuela Kunze