Tip of the Tongue Known-Item Retrieval: A Case Study in Movie Identification

no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Jaime Arguello, Adam Ferguson, Emery Fine, Bhaskar Mitra, Hamed Zamani, Fernando Diaz

Using movie search as a case study, we explore the characteristics of questions posed by searchers in TOT states in a community question answering website.

Community Question Answering Information Retrieval +1

Ranking Passages for Argument Convincingness

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Peter Potash, Adam Ferguson, Timothy J. Hazen

We detail the process of extracting topical passages for queries submitted to a search engine, creating annotated sets of passages aligned to different stances on a topic, and assessing argument convincingness of passages using pairwise annotation.