Reuse in Question Answering: A Preliminary Study (2008)
Marc Light, Abraham Ittycheriah, Andrew Latto
People when asked a number of questions about a particular topic begin to become knowledgeable about the topic as they look for and find answers to the questions.
HowtogetaChineseName(Entity): Segmentation and Combination Issues (2007)
Jing, Hongyan, Florian, Radu, Luo, Xiaoqiang, Zhang, Tong, Ittycheriah, Abraham
When building a Chinese named entity recognition system, one must deal with certain language-specific issues such as whether the model should be based on characters or words. While there is no unique...
IBM's Statistical Question Answering System - TREC-11 (2006)
Ittycheriah, Abraham, Roukos, Salim
In this paper, we document our efforts to extend our statistical question answering system for TREC-11. We incorporated a web search feature, and novel extensions of statistical machine translation...
IBM's PIQUANT in TREC2003 (2006)
Prager, John, Chu-Carroll, Jennifer, Czuba, Krzysztof, Welty, Christopher, Ittycheriah, Abraham, Mahindru, Ruchi
For the most part, the system we used for TREC2003 was a smooth evolution of the one we ran in TREC2002. We continued to use our multi-source and multi-agent architecture. For Factoid questions we...
A maximum entropy word aligner for Arabic-English machine translation (2005)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos
This paper presents a maximum entropy word alignment algorithm for Arabic-English based on supervised training data. We demonstrate that it is feasible to create training material for problems in...
2003. In question answering, two heads are better than one (2003)
Jennifer Chu-carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John Prager, Abraham Ittycheriah
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question answering which is...
HowtogetaChineseName(Entity): Segmentation and combination issues (2003)
Hongyan Jing, Radu Florian, Xiaoqiang Luo, Tong Zhang, Abraham Ittycheriah
hjing,raduf,xiaoluo,tzhang,abei¡ When building a Chinese named entity recognition system, one must deal with certain language-specific issues such as whether the model should be based on characters...
IBM Research Activities at TREC (2003)
Eric W. Brown, David Carmel, Martin Franz, Abraham Ittycheriah, Tapas Kanungo, Yoelle Maarek, ...
Trainable question answering systems / (2001)
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IBM’s statistical question answering system (2001)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Richard J. Mammone
We describe the IBM Statistical Question Answering for TREC-9 system in detail and look at several examples and errors. The system is an application of maximum entropy classification for...
IBM’s statistical question answering system (2001)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos
We describe herein the IBM Statistical Question Answering system for TREC-10 in detail. Based on experiences in TREC-9, we have adapted our system to deal with definition type questions and...
IBM’s statistical question answering system (2001)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos
In this paper, we document our e#orts to extend our statistical question answering system for TREC-11. We incorporated a web search feature, and novel extensions of statistical machine translation as...
IBM’s statistical question answering system (2001)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos
In this paper, we document our efforts to extend our statistical question answering system for TREC-11. We incorporated a web search feature, and novel extensions of statistical machine translation...
Question answering using maximum entropy components (2001)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Richard J. Mammone
We present a statistical question answering system developed for TREC-9 in detail. The system is an application of maximum entropy clas-sification for question/answer type prediction and named entity...
IBM's Statistical Question Answering System (2000)
Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Richard J. Mammone
We describe the IBM Statistical Question Answering for TREC-9 system in detail and look at several examples and errors. The system is an application of maximum entropy classi cation for...