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...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...