A study on the use of summaries and summary-based query expansion for a question-answering task

@misc{citeulike:1082011, abstract = {In this paper we report an initial study on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a questionanswering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents. The summaries are composed of a set of sentences that highlight the main points of the document as they relate to the query. These summaries are also used as evidence for a query expansion algorithm to test the use of summaries as evidence for interactive and automatic query expansion. We present...}, author = {Ruthven, I. and Tombros, A. and Jose, J. }, citeulike-article-id = {1082011}, keywords = {query-biased, summarization}, posted-at = {2007-02-01 12:55:29}, priority = {2}, title = {A study on the use of summaries and summary-based query expansion for a question-answering task}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ruthven01study.html}, year = {2001} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1082011 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1082011 TI - A study on the use of summaries and summary-based query expansion for a question-answering task N2 - In this paper we report an initial study on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a questionanswering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents. The summaries are composed of a set of sentences that highlight the main points of the document as they relate to the query. These summaries are also used as evidence for a query expansion algorithm to test the use of summaries as evidence for interactive and automatic query expansion. We present... KW - query-biased KW - summarization AU - Ruthven, I AU - Tombros, A AU - Jose, J PY - 2001/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ruthven01study.html ER -