Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Abstract. Answer validation is an important component of any question answering system. In this paper we show how the formalism of prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction allows ...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
During the last few years, a lot of researches have focused on automatic definition extraction in the context of question answering systems. Although, these researches have been co...
In this paper, we describe the system we used for the trec-2007 Question Answering Track. For factoid questions our redundancy-based approach using a modified version of aranea w...