In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing linkbased vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently wor...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...