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CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Approaching Question Answering by Means of Paragraph Validation
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...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition
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...
Ashish Kumar Saxena, Ganesh Viswanath Sambhu, Saro...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
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...
Jörg Tiedemann
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Combining Resources to Find Answers to Biomedical Questions
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...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task
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...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso