The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
The problem of finding a collection of solutions to a combinatorial problem that is optimal in terms of an inter-solution objective function exists in many application settings. F...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
This paper presents the QALL-ME benchmark, a multilingual resource of annotated spoken requests in the tourism domain, freely available for research purposes. The languages curren...
Elena Cabrio, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...