Publications
2009
Sakai, Tetsuya, Noriko Kando, Hideki Shima, Chuan-Jie Lin, Ruihua Song, Miho Sugimoto and Teruko Mitamura. 2009. "Ranking the NTCIR ACLIA IR4QA Systems without Relevance Assessments", DBSJ Journal, Vol.8, No.2, pp.1-6 (2009) PDF
Sakai, Tetsuya, Noriko Kando, Chuan-Jie Lin, Ruihua Song, Hideki Shima, and Teruko Mitamura. 2009. "Revisiting NTCIR ACLIA IR4QA with Additional Relevance Assessments", IPSJ SIG Technical Report Vol.2009-DBS-148 No.9 / Vol.2009-FI-95 No.9, 2009.
2008
Bilotti, Matthew and Eric Nyberg. 2008. "Improving Text Retrieval Precision and Answer Accuracy in Question Answering Systems", Proceedings of the Second Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA) Workshop at COLING 2008. PDF
Bilotti, Matthew, Le Zhao, Jamie Callan and Eric Nyberg. 2008. "Focused Retrieval over Richly-Annotated Collections", Proceedings of the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval. PDF
Shima, Hideki, Ni Lao, Eric Nyberg and Teruko Mitamura. 2008. "Complex Cross-lingual Question Answering as Sequential Classification and Multi-Document Summarization Task", Proceedings of NTICIR-7 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan. PDF.
Lao, Ni, Hideki Shima, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg. 2008. "Query Expansion and Machine Translation for Robust Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval", Proceedings of NTICIR-7 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan. PDF.
Mitamura, Teruko, Eric Nyberg, Hideki Shima, Tsuneaki Kato, Tatsunori Mori, Chin-Yew Lin, Ruihua Song, Chuan-Jie Lin, Tetsuya Sakai, Donghong Ji and Noriko Kando. 2008. "Overview of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access", Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop, Japan. PDF.
Sakai, Tetsuya, Noriko Kando, Chuan-Jie Lin, Teruko Mitamura, Hideki Shima, Donghong Ji, Kuang-Hua Chen and Eric Nyberg. 2008. "Overview of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA IR4QA Task", Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop, Japan. PDF.
2007
Bilotti, Matthew, Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "Structured Retrieval for Question Answering", Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval. Amsterdam. PDF.
Ko, Jeongwoo, Luo Si and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "A Probabilistic Graphical Model for Joint Answer Ranking in Question Answering", Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval. Amsterdam. PDF.
Ko, Jeongwoo, Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "Probabilistic Answer Ranking in Multilingual Question Answering", Proceedings of 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2007), Prague. PDF.
Wang, Mengqiu, Noah A. Smith and Teruko Mitamura. 2007. "What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA", Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. Prague. PDF.
Mitamura, Teruko, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents", Proceedings of NTICIR-6 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan. PDF
Shima, Hideki and Teruko Mitamura. 2007. "JAVELIN III: Answering Non-Factoid Questions in Japanese", Proceedings of NTICIR-6 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan. PDF
Ko, Jeongwoo, Luo Si and Eric Nyberg. 2007. "A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering", Proceedings of HLT/NAACL. Rochester, NY. PDF.
2006
Pedro, Vasco, Eric Nyberg and Jaime Carbonell. 2006. "Federated Ontology Search", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery (SIIK 2006), Yogyakarta, Indonesia PDF.
Wang, Mengqiu, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura. 2006. “A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese”. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006. Sydney, Australia. PDF.
Mitamura, Teruko, Mengqiu Wang, Hideki Shima, Frank Lin. 2006. "Keyword Translation Accuracy and Cross-Lingual Question Answering in Chinese and Japanese", Proceedings of EACL 2006 Workshop on MLQA. Trento, Italy.PDF
Shima, Hideki, Mengqiu Wang, Frank Lin and Teruko Mitamura. 2006. "Modular Approach to Error Analysis and Evaluation for Multilingual Question Answering", Proceedings of LREC 2006. Genoa, Italy. PDF
Bilotti, Matthew and Eric Nyberg. 2006. "Evaluation for Scenario Question Answering Systems", Proceedings of LREC 2006. Genoa, Italy. PDF
Ko, Jeongwoo, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Eric Nyberg. 2006. "Exploiting Multiple Semantic Resources for Answer Selection", proceedings of LREC 2006. Genoa, Italy. PDF
2005
Nyberg, Eric, Robert Frederking, Teruko Mitamura, Matthew Bilotti, Kerry Hannan, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Jeongwoo Ko, Frank Lin, Lucian Lita, Vasco Pedro, and Andrew Schlaikjer. 2005. "JAVELIN I and II Systems at TREC 2005", Proceedings of TREC 2005 PDF
Lin, Frank, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Teruko Mitamura. 2005. "CMU JAVELIN System for NTCIR5 CLQA1", Proceedings of the 5th NTCIR Workshop, Tokyo, Japan PDF
Si, L. and J. Callan. 2005. "Modeling search engine effectiveness for federated search.", Proceedings of the Twenty Eighth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil. PDF
Si, L. and J. Callan. 2005. "CLEF 2005: Multilingual retrieval by combining multiple multilingual ranked lists.", Sixth Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria. PDF
Hiyakumoto L., L.V. Lita, E. Nyberg. 2005. "Multi-Strategy Information Extraction for Question Answering", Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2005). PDF
Nyberg, Eric, Teruko Mitamura, Robert Frederking, Vasco Pedro, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Kerry Hannan. 2005. "Extending the JAVELIN QA System with Domain Semantics", Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005). PDF
Collins-Thompson, K. and J. Callan. 2005. "Predicting reading difficulty with statistical reading models". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56(13) (pp. 1448-1462).
2004
Nyberg, Eric, John Burger, Scott Mardis and David Ferrucci. 2004. “Software architectures for advanced question answering.” In Maybury, M. (Ed.), New Directions in Question-Answering. AAAI Press.
Lin, Frank and Teruko Mitamura. 2004. "Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA", Proceedings of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2004). PDF
Lita, L.V. and J. Carbonell. 2004. "Unsupervised Question Answering Data Acquisition From Local Corpora", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004). PDF
Si, Luo and Jamie Callan. 2004. "Unified Utility Maximization Framework for Resource Selection", In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004) PDF
Lita, L.V., W. Hunt, E. Nyberg. 2004. "Resource Analysis for Question Answering", Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2004). PDF
Lita, L.V. and J. Carbonell. 2004. "Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data Driven Approach", , Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004). PDF
Pedro, Vasco, Jeongwoo Ko, Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura. 2004. "An information Repository Model For Advanced Question Answering Systems", International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). PDF
Kupsc, Anna, Teruko Mitamura, Benjamin Van Durme, Eric Nyberg. 2004. "Pronominal Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Text", , International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). PDF
Pedro, Vasco. 2004. "From text to actions, Semantic reasoning within closed domains" Master thesis, April 2004 PDF
Hiyakumoto, Laurie S. 2004. "Planning in the JAVELIN QA System", Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-04-132 (2004) PDF
Hunt, W., L.V. Lita, E. Nyberg. 2004. "Gazetteers, WordNet, Encyclopedias, and The Web: Analyzing Question Answering Resources", Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon Technical Report CMU-LTI-04-188 (2004). PDF
2003
Collins-Thompson, K., P. Ogilvie, Y. Zhang, and J. Callan. 2003. "Information filtering, novelty detection, and named-page finding." In Proceedings of the 2002 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. PDF
Nyberg, E., T. Mitamura, J. Callan, J. Carbonell, R. Frederking, K. Collins-Thompson, L. Hiyakumoto, Y. Huang, C. Huttenhower, S. Judy, J. Ko, A. Kupse, L. Lita, V. Pedro, D. Svoboda and B. Van Durme. 2003. "The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategy Approach with Dynamic Planning", Proceedings of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference, November 2003 (TREC 2003) PDF
Van Durme, B., A. Kupsc, Y. Huang. 2003. "Towards Light Semantic Processings for Question Answering," Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop on Text Meaning, pp. 54-61 (HLT 2003). PDF
Ogilvie, P. and J. Callan. 2003 "Combining structural information and the use of priors in mixed named-page and homepage finding." In Proceedings of the 2003 Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003). National Institute of Standards and Technology, special publication. PDF
Ogilvie, P. and J. Callan. 2003. "Combining document representations for known item search." In Proceedings of the Twenty Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Toronto: ACM. PDF
Ogilvie, P. and J. Callan. 2003. "Using language models for flat text queries in XML retrieval." In Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX). 2003. PDF
2002
Ogilvie, P. and J. Callan. 2002. "Language models and structured documents." In Proceedings of the First Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) (pp 18-23). 2002. PDF
Nyberg, E., T. Mitamura, J. Carbonell, J. Callan, K. Collins-Thompson, K. Czuba, M. Duggan, L. Hiyakumoto, N. Hu, Y. Huang, J. Ko, L. Lita, S. Murtagh, V. Pedro and D. Svoboda. 2002. "The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002", Proceedings of the 11th Text REtrieval Conference, November 2002 (TREC 2002) PDF
Nyberg, Eric and Teruko Mitamura. 2002. "Evaluating QA Systems on Multiple Dimensions," Proceedings of LREC 2002 Workshop on QA Strategy and Resources, May 28th, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria PDF