The program consists for two sessions, one for presentation of papers of more academic nature and the other for presentations of papers with industrial practices and experiences. Each session consists of a lead talk with about 30 minutes followed by three short presentations. In addition to its own work, a lead talk may use about 10-15 minutes to cover a brief survey of the state of the art in this area, possibly including brief introductions, summaries, or comments of the presentations in the same session. Each short presentation has only 10 minutes, and hopefully should focus more on the method and result, and skip or just briefly mention the introduction/motivation. Following all presentations in the same session will be a small panel of all presenters in the session for a brainstorming discussion for about 30 minutes, including answering questions from the audience. A coordinator and a scribe will be appointed for each session to facilitate the discussion and record the major points, respectively. A summary of the discussion for each session will be published on the workshop webpage after the workshop. We hope such arrangement can make the workshop have more workshop atmosphere or more like a workshop.
Tentative Program of QAWeb2008
April
22, 2008,
Academic Paper Session:
9:00-9:30 (lead
talk)
Question Answering with Question Answer Pairs on the Web, Junlan
Feng, AT&T Labs Research
9:30-9:40 Utilizing
Sentence Similarity and Question Type Similarity to Response to Similar
Questions in Knowledge-Sharing Community, Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan
Zhang, Drexel University
9:40-9:50 Selecting
the Best Mobile Information Service with Natural Language User Input, Qiangze Feng, Hongwei Qi, Toshikazu Fukushima, NEC Labs
9:50-10:00 Retrieving Answers to De¯nition Questions, Alejandro Figueroa, DFKI
10:00-10:30 Panel
Discussion (including Q&A)
10:30-11:00 Break
Industrial Paper Session:
11:00-11:30 (lead
talk)
Questioning Yahoo! Answers,
11:30-11:40 Fora: Leveraging the Power
of Internet Communities for Question Answering, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research
11:40-11:50 Question and Answer
System Based on Mass Collaboration Community, ChenXu,
Cheng Xiaojun,Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University
11:50-12:00 Automatic
Categorization of Questions in a User-interactive Question Answering System,
Wanpeng Song, Liu Wenyin, Naijie Gu Tianyong Hao,
University of Science & Technology of China
12:00-12:30 Panel
Discussion (including Q&A)