We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...
This paper describes the architecture, operation and results obtained with the Question Answering prototype developed in the Department of Language Processing and Information Syst...
This paper describes experiments in the automatic construction of lexicons that would be useful in searching large document collections for text fragments that address a specific ...
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...