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Publications:| Learning to rank for why-question answering |
| S. Verberne, H. van Halteren, D. Theijssen, S. Raaijmakers & L. Boves (2011) |
| Information Retrieval, Volume 14, number 2, pp. 107-132, DOI 10.1007 / s10791-010-9136-6. |
| Paper (pdf; 345938 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| CLEF-IP 2010: Prior Art Retrieval using the different sections in patent documents |
| E.K.L. D'hondt & S. Verberne (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), CLEF-IP workshop |
| Evaluating a hybrid parser on Penn Treebank dependency triplets |
| E.K.L. D'hondt, S. Verberne, N.H.J. Oostdijk & L. Boves (2010) |
| Proceedings of the 20th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands conference, CLIN 2010 |
| Paper (pdf; 753468 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Patent classification experiments with the Linguistic Classification System LCS |
| S. Verberne, E.K.L. D'hondt & M. Vogel (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), CLEF-IP workshop |
| Paper (pdf; 117315 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| How does the Library Searcher Behave? A Contrastive Study of Library Search against Ad-hoc Search |
| S. Verberne, M. Hinne, M. van der Heijden, E. Hoenkamp, W. Kraaij & Th.van der Weide (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), logCLEF workshop |
| Paper (pdf; 214516 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Genre and Domain in Patent Texts |
| N.H.J. Oostdijk, H. van Halteren, E.K.L. D'hondt & S. Verberne (2010) |
| Proceedings of the The 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PAIR) at CIKM 2010, pp 39-46 |
| Paper (pdf; 181795 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| When is a query a question? Reconstructing wh-requests from ad hoc-queries |
| M. van der Heijden, M. Hinne, S. Verberne, E. Hoenkamp, Th. van der Weide & W. Kraaij (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Query Representation and Understanding workshop at SIGIR 2010, pp. 17-20 |
| Paper (pdf; 253676 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Constructing a broad coverage lexicon for text mining in the patent domain |
| N.H.J. Oostdijk, S. Verberne & C. Koster (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010) Valletta, Malta, May 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). |
| Paper (pdf; 74951 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| What is not in the Bag of Words for Why-QA? |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2010) |
| Computational Linguistics, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 229-245. |
| Paper (pdf; 117791 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Quantifying the Challenges in Parsing Patent Claims |
| S. Verberne, E.K.L. D'hondt, N.H.J. Oostdijk & C. Koster (2010) |
| Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe 2010), pp. 14-21. |
| Paper (pdf; 499689 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Re-ranking based on Syntactic Dependencies in Prior-Art Retrieval |
| E.K.L. D'hondt, S. Verberne, N.H.J. Oostdijk & L. Boves (2010) |
| Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop 2010 (DIR 2010), pages 23-30 |
| Paper (pdf; 184977 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Prior art retrieval using the claims section as a bag of words |
| S. Verberne & E.K.L. D'hondt (2009) |
| Working notes of CLEF 2009, CLEF-IP workshop. |
| Paper (pdf; 82776 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Learning to Rank QA data |
| S. Verberne, H. van Halteren, S. Raaijmakers, D. Theijssen & L. Boves (2009) |
| Proceedings of the Learning to Rank workshop at SIGIR 2009, pp. 41-48 |
| Paper (pdf; 216206 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Annotating URLs with query terms: What factors predict reliable annotations? |
| S. Verberne, M. Hinne, M. van der Heijden, W. Kraaij, E.K.L. D'hondt & Th. van der Weide (2009) |
| Proceedings of the Understanding the User (UIIR) workshop at SIGIR 2009 |
| Paper (pdf; 523469 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Annotation of URLs: more than the sum of parts |
| M. Hinne, W. Kraaij, S. Verberne, S. Raaijmakers, Th. van der Weide & M. van der Heijden (2009) |
| Proceedings of the 32th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, pp. 632-633 |
| Paper (pdf; 160238 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Using query logs and click data to create improved document descriptions |
| M. van der Heijden, M. Hinne, W. Kraaij, S. Verberne & Th. van der Weide (2009) |
| Proceedings of WSCD 2009 |
| Paper (pdf; 142003 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Challenges in Professional Search with PHASAR |
| C.H.A. Koster, N.H.J. Oostdijk, S. Verberne & E.K.L. D'hondt (2009) |
| Proceedings of DIR 2009, pp. 101-102 |
| Paper (pdf; 327570 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Learning to Rank Answers to Why-Questions |
| S. Verberne, S. Raaijmakers, D. Theijssen & L. Boves (2009) |
| Proceedings of DIR 2009, pp. 34-41 |
| Paper (pdf; 183308 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Features for automatic discourse analysis of paragraphs |
| D. Theijssen, H. van Halteren, S. Verberne & L. Boves (2009) |
| Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, selected papers from the eighteenth CLIN meeting. pp. 53-68 |
| Paper (pdf; 206453 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Passage Retrieval for Question Answering using Sliding Windows |
| S. Verberne & M. Khalid (2008) |
| Proceedings of COLING 2008, workshop Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA) |
| Paper (pdf; 62337 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering. |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2008) |
| Proceedings of COLING 2008 |
| Paper (pdf; 60056 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Evaluating paragraph retrieval for why-QA |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2008) |
| C. MacDonald et al. (Eds.): European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2008, LNCS 4956, p.p. 669-673, 2008 |
| Paper (pdf; 93134 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Evaluating deep syntactic parsing |
| D. Theijssen, S. Verberne, N.H.J. Oostdijk & L. Boves (2007) |
| Proceedings of the 17th meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 17), Leuven, Belgium, pp 115-130. |
| Paper (pdf; 112674 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Paragraph retrieval for why-question answering |
| S. Verberne (2007) |
| Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, p. 922 (Doctoral Consortium) |
| Paper (pdf; 94488 bytes) ; |
| Discourse-based answering of why-questions |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2007) |
| Traitement Automatique des Langues 2006 Volume 47 Numéro 2: Discours et document : traitements automatiques, p.p. 21-41 |
| Paper (pdf; 185084 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Evaluating Answer Extraction for Why-QA using RST-annotated Wikipedia texts |
| S. Verberne (2007) |
| Proceedings of the Twelfth ESSLLI Student Session, Dublin, pp. 255-266. |
| Paper (pdf; 158213 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Evaluating Discourse-based Answer Extraction for Why-Question Answering |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2007) |
| Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, pp. 735-737 |
| Paper (pdf; 107162 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Exploring the use of linguistic analysis for answering why-questions |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2006) |
| Proceedings of the 16th meeting of Computational Linguistics n the Netherlands (CLIN 2005), Amsterdam, pp. 33-48 |
| Paper (pdf; 132976 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Data for question answering: the case of why |
| S. Verberne, L. Boves, N.H.J. Oostdijk & P.A.J.M. Coppen (2006) |
| Proceedings of the 5th edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy. |
| Paper (pdf; 106788 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |
| Developing an approach for why-question answering |
| S. Verberne (2006) |
| Conference Companion of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, pp. 39-46 |
| Paper (pdf; 111496 bytes) ; Abstract (html) |