This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
Specific information on biomolecular events such as protein-protein and gene-protein interactions is essential for molecular biology researchers. However, the results derived by c...
Ryan T. K. Lin, Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Hong-Jie Dai...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...