A User Reputation Model for a User-Interactive Question Answering System

Author(s):  
Wei Chen Wei Chen ◽  
Qingtian Zeng Qingtian Zeng ◽  
Liu Wenyin Liu Wenyin
Author(s):  
Tianyong Hao ◽  
Feifei Xu ◽  
Jingsheng Lei ◽  
Liu Wenyin ◽  
Qing Li

A strategy of automatic answer retrieval for repeated or similar questions in user-interactive systems by employing semantic question patterns is proposed in this paper. The used semantic question pattern is a generalized representation of a group of questions with both similar structure and relevant semantics. Specifically, it consists of semantic annotations (or constraints) for the variable components in the pattern and hence enhances the semantic representation and greatly reduces the ambiguity of a question instance when asked by a user using such pattern. The proposed method consists of four major steps: structure processing, similar pattern matching and filtering, automatic pattern generation, question similarity evaluation and answer retrieval. Preliminary experiments in a real question answering system show a precision of more than 90% of the method.


2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. QUARTERONI ◽  
S. MANANDHAR

AbstractInteractive question answering (QA), where a dialogue interface enables follow-up and clarification questions, is a recent although long-advocated field of research. We report on the design and implementation of YourQA, our open-domain, interactive QA system. YourQA relies on a Web search engine to obtain answers to both fact-based and complex questions, such as descriptions and definitions. We describe the dialogue moves and management model making YourQA interactive, and discuss the architecture, implementation and evaluation of its chat-based dialogue interface. Our Wizard-of-Oz study and final evaluation results show how the designed architecture can effectively achieve open-domain, interactive QA.


Author(s):  
Tianyong Hao ◽  
Feifei Xu ◽  
Jingsheng Lei ◽  
Liu Wenyin ◽  
Qing Li

A strategy of automatic answer retrieval for repeated or similar questions in user-interactive systems by employing semantic question patterns is proposed in this paper. The used semantic question pattern is a generalized representation of a group of questions with both similar structure and relevant semantics. Specifically, it consists of semantic annotations (or constraints) for the variable components in the pattern and hence enhances the semantic representation and greatly reduces the ambiguity of a question instance when asked by a user using such pattern. The proposed method consists of four major steps: structure processing, similar pattern matching and filtering, automatic pattern generation, question similarity evaluation and answer retrieval. Preliminary experiments in a real question answering system show a precision of more than 90% of the method.


Author(s):  
Yining Hong ◽  
Jialu Wang ◽  
Yuting Jia ◽  
Weinan Zhang ◽  
Xinbing Wang

We present Academic Reader, a system which can read academic literatures and answer the relevant questions for researchers. Academic Reader leverages machine reading comprehension technique, which has been successfully applied in many fields but has not been involved in academic literature reading. An interactive platform is established to demonstrate the functions of Academic Reader. Pieces of academic literature and relevant questions are input to our system, which then outputs answers. The system can also gather users’ revised answers and perform active learning to continuously improve its performance. A case study is provided presenting the performance of our system on all papers accepted in KDD 2018, which demonstrates how our system facilitates massive academic literature reading.


2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 2435-2447
Author(s):  
Jui-Feng Yeh ◽  
Yu-Jui Huang ◽  
Kao-Pin Huang

Purpose This study aims to provide an ontology based Baysian network for clinical specialty supporting. As a knowledge base, ontology plays an essential role in domain applications especially in expert systems. Interactive question answering systems are suitable for personal domain consulting and recommended for real-time usage. Clinical specialty supporting for dispatching patients can assist hospitals to locate desired treatment departments for individuals relevant to their syndromes and disease efficiently and effectively. By referring to interactive question answering systems, individuals can understand how to alleviate time and medical resource wasting according to recommendations from medical ontology-based systems. Design/methodology/approach This work presents an ontology based on clinical specialty supporting using an interactive question answering system to achieve this aim. The ontology incorporates close temporal associations between words in input query to represent word co-occurrence relationships in concept space. The patterns defined in lexicon chain mechanism are further extracted from the query words to infer related concepts for treatment departments to retrieve information. Findings The precision and recall rates are considered as the criteria for model optimization. Finally, the inference-based interactive question answering system using natural language interface is adopted for clinical specialty supporting, and indicates its superiority in information retrieval over traditional approaches. Originality/value From the observed experimental results, we find the proposed method is useful in practice especially in treatment department decision supporting using metrics precision and recall rates. The interactive interface using natural language dialogue attracts the users’ attention and obtains a good score in mean opinion score measure.


2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 2178-2183
Author(s):  
Yan Cheng Li ◽  
Hua Duan ◽  
Qing Tian Zeng ◽  
Fa Ming Lu

User-interactive question answering systems are catching more and more attention, however users complaints arise within it from such problems as unfair compensation. This paper focuses on a π-calculus-based formal model for the complaint process of a user-interactive question answering system. The formal model is verified by employing MWB tools so as to demonstrate the deadlock-free and other properties. The research results are of special significance to the comprehensive formal analysis of the user-interactive question answering systems.


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