Constructing an Alias List for Named Entities during an Event

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Anietie Andy, Mark Dredze, Mugizi Rwebangira, Chris Callison-Burch

EntitySpike uses a temporal heuristic to identify named entities with similar context that occur in the same time period (within minutes) during an event.

Community Question Answering

Name Variation in Community Question Answering Systems

no code implementations • WS 2016 • Anietie Andy, Satoshi Sekine, Mugizi Rwebangira, Mark Dredze

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to reduce the number of unanswered questions in Yahoo!

Community Question Answering Entity Linking

An Entity-Based approach to Answering Recurrent and Non-Recurrent Questions with Past Answers

no code implementations • WS 2016 • Anietie Andy, Mugizi Rwebangira, Satoshi Sekine

For unanswered questions that do not have a past resolved question with a shared need, we propose to use the best answer to a past resolved question with similar needs.

Community Question Answering Entity Linking