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NAACL
2004
13 years 8 months ago
2004
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
2003
ACM
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The question answering systems are considered the next generation of search engines. This paper focuses on the first step of this process, which is to search for relevant...
AIRS
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...