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most citedNo Need to Pay Attention: Simple Recurrent Neural Networks Work! (for Answering "Simple" Questions)

12 citations · 27 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2018★ 3 cited

Streaming Voice Query Recognition using Causal Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks

Raphael Tang, Gefei Yang, Hong Wei +3

Voice-enabled commercial products are ubiquitous, typically enabled by lightweight on-device keyword spotting (KWS) and full automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the cloud. ASR sy…

cs.IR2018★ 4 cited

Multi-Perspective Relevance Matching with Hierarchical ConvNets for Social Media Search

Jinfeng Rao, Wei Yang, Yuhao Zhang +2

Despite substantial interest in applications of neural networks to information retrieval, neural ranking models have only been applied to standard ad hoc retrieval tasks over web p…

cs.IR2017★ 5 cited

Integrating Lexical and Temporal Signals in Neural Ranking Models for Searching Social Media Streams

Jinfeng Rao, Hua He, Haotian Zhang +4

Time is an important relevance signal when searching streams of social media posts. The distribution of document timestamps from the results of an initial query can be leveraged to…

cs.IR2017★ 3 cited

Talking to Your TV: Context-Aware Voice Search with Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks

Jinfeng Rao, Ferhan Ture, Hua He +2

We tackle the novel problem of navigational voice queries posed against an entertainment system, where viewers interact with a voice-enabled remote controller to specify the progra…

cs.CL2016

Learning to Translate for Multilingual Question Answering

Ferhan Ture, Elizabeth Boschee

In multilingual question answering, either the question needs to be translated into the document language, or vice versa. In addition to direction, there are multiple methods to pe…

cs.CL2016★ 12 cited

No Need to Pay Attention: Simple Recurrent Neural Networks Work! (for Answering "Simple" Questions)

Ferhan Ture, Oliver Jojic

First-order factoid question answering assumes that the question can be answered by a single fact in a knowledge base (KB). While this does not seem like a challenging task, many r…