The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
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...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we present a brief overview of our QA-system, which makes heavy use of syntacti...
In this paper, we describe UNED’s participation in the iCLEF 2005 track. We have compared two strategies for finding an answer using an interactive question answering system: i...