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TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Support for Question-Answering in Interactive Information Retrieval: Rutgers' TREC-9 Interactive Track Experience
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
ANLP
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Answer Extraction
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
Steven P. Abney, Michael Collins, Amit Singhal
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
The QUANTUM Question Answering System
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...
Luc Plamondon, Guy Lapalme, Leila Kosseim
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...