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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
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...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
TREC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
Ellen M. Voorhees
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Application of Lexical-Syntactic Knowledge to the Answer Validation Exercise
Abstract. This paper presents a system that applies Textual Entailment recognition techniques to the AVE task. This is performed comparing representations of text snippets by means...
Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafae...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006
This paper describes the development of a Question Answering (QA) system and its evaluation results in the Romanian-English cross-lingual track organized as part of the CLEF1 2006 ...
Georgiana Puscasu, Adrian Iftene, Ionut Pistol, Di...