While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
This paper presents our bilingual question-answering system MUSCLEF. We underline the difficulties encountered when shifting from a mono to a cross-lingual system, then we focus o...
We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to ...
The RITEL project aims to integrate a spoken language dialogue system and an open-domain information retrieval system in order to enable human users to ask a general question and ...
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...