Sciweavers

479 search results - page 5 / 96
» A Hybrid Question Answering System based on Information Retr...
Sort
View
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Recognizing Textual Entailment as a Core Engine for Answer Validation
This paper is about our approach to answer validation, which centered by a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) core engine. We first combined the question and the answer into Hypo...
Rui Wang, Günter Neumann
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German
This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
Robert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Sc...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
AWIC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Fuzzy Constraint Based Answer Validation
Abstract. Answer validation is an important component of any question answering system. In this paper we show how the formalism of prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction allows ...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...