In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
The DL-Lite family of Description Logics has been designed with the specific goal of allowing for answering complex queries (in particular, conjunctive queries) over ontologies w...
The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CL...
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...
In large data warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to complex aggregate queries based on statistical summaries of the full data....
Swarup Acharya, Phillip B. Gibbons, Viswanath Poos...