In this paper we describe the system we developed for taking part in monolingual Spanish and English tasks at ResPubliQA 2009. Our system was composed by an IR phase focused on im...
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
One of the NLM experimental approaches to the 2007 Genomics track question answering task followed the track evaluation design: we attempted identifying exact answers in the form ...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas...
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...