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TREC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Question Answering with QED and Wee at TREC 2004
This report describes the experiments of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sydney at the TREC-2004 question answering evaluation exercise. Our system combines two ...
Kisuh Ahn, Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, Tiphaine Dalm...
NDQA
2003
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13 years 11 months ago
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski...
JCST
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
New Information Distance Measure and Its Application in Question Answering System
In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...