The current expansion in collections of natural language based digital documents in various media and languages is creating challenging opportunities for automatically accessing t...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Question Answering track. We explain the ideas underlying our approaches to the task, report on our results, provide an error analy...
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...
The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be retur...
This year at TREC 2003 we participated in the robust track and investigated the use of very simple retrieval rules based on convex combinations of similarity measures based on fi...