Classifying what-type questions into proper semantic categories is found more challenging than classifying other types in question answering systems. In this paper, we propose to ...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...