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TREC
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cache-aware load balancing for question answering
The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
David Dominguez-Sal, Mihai Surdeanu, Josep Aguilar...
TREC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
The QUANTUM Question Answering System
We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...
Luc Plamondon, Guy Lapalme, Leila Kosseim
RIAO
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Question Answering
We have developed a method for answering single answer questions automatically using a collection of documents or the Internet as a source of data for the production of the answer...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...