This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
Most users of machine-learning products are reluctant to use the systems without any sense of the underlying logic that has led to the system's predictions. Unfortunately many...
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
Abstract. We implemented a baseline approach to why-question answering based on paragraph retrieval. Our implementation incorporates the QAP ranking algorithm with addition of a nu...
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...