User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering why-questions. We created a data collection for research, development and evaluation of a meth...
Despite continuing advances in machine translation technology, users who lack familiarity with particular foreign languages have no good way to find information in those languages...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan K...
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...