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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cache-aware load balancing for question answering
The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
David Dominguez-Sal, Mihai Surdeanu, Josep Aguilar...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Question Answering System: Retrieving Relevant Passages
This paper discusses the QA system submitted by Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India in the ResPubliQA 2010. We have participated in the mo...
Hitesh Sabnani, Prasenjit Majumder
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...