We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
With the proliferation of text and multimedia information, users are now able to find answers to almost any questions on the Web. Meanwhile, they are also bewildered by the huge a...
1 While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction ─ to handle ...
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and “Other” questions organized around a set of targets, ...