A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering

This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized language modeling for question classification; (ii) constrained language modeling for passage retrieval.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
• Keywords: Language Modeling, Language Modeling Approach, Question Answering, TREC 2003, TREC 2008