One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
This article presents the first participation of the Avignon University Science Laboratory (LIA) to the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). LIA participated to the monolingual ...
Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, P...
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...