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...
The ability to answer temporal-oriented questions based on clinical narratives is essential to clinical research. The temporal dimension in medical data analysis enables clinical r...
Cui Tao, Harold R. Solbrig, Deepak K. Sharma, Wei-...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...