dr. Suzan Verberne

Post-doc

 

Room: E 8.07
Tel.: +31 (0)24 3611134
E-mail: s.verberne@let.ru.nl

 

Personal homepage of Suzan Verberne

 

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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)