We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
The ability to answer temporal-oriented questions based on clinical narratives is essential to clinical research. The temporal dimension in medical data analysis enables clinical r...
Cui Tao, Harold R. Solbrig, Deepak K. Sharma, Wei-...
The main aim of this project is to explore, develop and evaluate the contribution of language technologies to the development of WEBCOOP, a system that provides intelligent Cooper...