In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...
Questions that require answers in the form of a list of entities and the identification of diverse biological entity classes present an interesting challenge that required new app...
Luis Tari, Phan Huy Tu, Barry Lumpkin, Robert Leam...
This paper reports on the construction and testing of a new Question Answering (QA) system, implemented as an workflow which builds on several web services developed at the Resear...
Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Tu...
Question classification (QC) plays a key role in automated question answering (QA) systems. In Chinese QC, for example, a question is analyzed and then labeled with the question ty...
We present a novel framework for automated extraction and approximation of numerical object attributes such as height and weight from the Web. Given an object-attribute pair, we d...