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Question types in digital reference: an evaluation of question taxonomies

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International Conference on Digital Libraries archive
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Portland, Oregon, USA

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Pages: 404 - 404

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-513-0

Author

Jeffrey Pomerantz

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This study evaluates four taxonomies of question types to determine the expressiveness of each for questions received by digital reference services. The result is a faceted classification scheme that can be used as a basis for automating parts of the reference question answering process.

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Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.4 Systems and Software
Subjects: Question-answering (fact retrieval) systems**