Incorporating User Models In Question Answering To ImproveReadability

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  • Silvia Quarteroni
  • Suresh Manandhar
چکیده

Most question answering and information retrieval systems are insensitive to different users’ needs and preferences, as well as their reading level. In (Quarteroni and Manandhar, 2006), we introduce a hybrid QA-IR system based on a a user model. In this paper we focus on how the system filters and re-ranks the search engine results for a query according to their reading difficulty, providing user-tailored answers.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006