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Eugene Agichtein
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 166
Citations - 11564
Eugene Agichtein is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Question answering & Web search query. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 166 publications receiving 10917 citations. Previous affiliations of Eugene Agichtein include Amazon.com & Microsoft.
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The Answer is at your Fingertips: Improving Passage Retrieval for Web Question Answering with Search Behavior Data
TL;DR: This work proposes, to the best of its knowledge, the first successful attempt to incorporate searcher examination data into passage retrieval for question answering, by exploiting detailed examination data to infer the parts of the document the searcher found interesting, and then incorporating this signal into passage retrieves.
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Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the ‘Evolution’ of Legal Language
Daniel Martin Katz,Daniel Martin Katz,Michael James Bommarito,Julie Seaman,Adam Candeub,Eugene Agichtein +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the potential of n-grams as a vehicle to explore the "evolution" of the law and legal language, using full text corpus of decisions of the United States Supreme Court (1791-2005).
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Beyond session segmentation: predicting changes in search intent with client-side user interactions
Qi Guo,Eugene Agichtein +1 more
TL;DR: Preliminary investigation of predicting, in real time, whether a user is about to switch interest - that is, whether the user isAbout to finish the current search and switch to another search task (or stop searching altogether).
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QXtract: a building block for efficient information extraction from text databases
Eugene Agichtein,Luis Gravano +1 more
TL;DR: A wealth of information is hidden within unstructured text that is best utilized in structured or relational form, which is suited for sophisticated query processing, for integration with relational databases, and for data mining.
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Bootstrap-Based equivalent pattern learning for collaborative question answering
Tianyong Hao,Eugene Agichtein +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a precise approach of automatically finding an answer to semantic similar questions by identifying "equivalent" questions submitted and answered, based on a new pattern generation method T-IPG to automatically extract equivalent question patterns.