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TREC
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Ellen M. Voorhees
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An alignment-based surface pattern for a question answering system
In this paper, we propose an alignment-based surface pattern approach, called ABSP, which integrates semantic information into syntactic patterns for question answering (QA). ABSP...
Cheng-Lung Sung, Cheng-Wei Lee, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 4 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
NLDB
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Applying Wikipedia's Multilingual Knowledge to Cross-Lingual Question Answering
The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of Eu...
Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Ósc...
TREC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Linguistic Processing and Web Mining for Question Answering: ITC-irst at TREC 2004
This paper describes the work we have been done in the last year on the DIOGENE Question Answering system developed at ITC-Irst. We present two preliminary experiments showing the...
Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini