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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
RAVE: A Fast Logic-Based Answer Validator
RAVE (Real-time Answer Validation Engine) is a logic-based answer validator/selector designed for real-time question answering. Instead of proving a hypothesis for each answer, RAV...
Ingo Glöckner
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
FLAIRS
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Mining Textual Answers with Knowledge-Based Indicators
This paper describes a knowledge-based methodologyof miningtextual answersinto large collections of texts. Wepresent SOMBRERO,a knowledge processing module implemented in the LASS...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation
The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2006 is aimed at evaluating systems able to decide whether the responses of a Question Answering (QA) system are correct or not. Since most of ...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jes&u...