Mudhakar Srivatsa

Decentralized search in expert networks: Generic models and performance bounds

2016

We investigate the problem of query answering in expert networks, which are composed of inter-connected experts with various specialties. Upon receiving a query, the expert network is tasked to route this query to experts with …

On Generating Characteristic-rich Question Sets for QA Evaluation

2016

We present a semi-automated framework for constructing factoid question answering (QA) datasets, where an array of question characteristics are formalized, including structure complexity, function, commonness, answer cardinality, and paraphrasing. Instead of collecting questions and manually …