This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
: Up to now, the results of applying sophisticated NL techniques to IR have been mostly disappointing. Our research aims at investigating in detail the role of syntactic analysis i...
We argue in this paper that benchmarking should be complemented by direct measurement of parallelisation overheads when evaluating parallel state-space exploration algorithms. Thi...
Automatic detection systems do not perform as well as human observers, even on simple detection tasks. A potential solution to this problem is training vision systems on appropriat...