This year, besides providing support to other groups participating in cross-language Question Answering (QA) tasks, and submitting runs both for the monolingual Italian and the cr...
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...