CAS-ICT took part in the TREC conference for the first time this year. We have participated in three tracks of TREC-10. For adaptive filtering track, we paid more attention to fea...
Bin Wang, Hongbo Xu, Zhifeng Yang, Yue Liu, Xueqi ...
In this our first participation in TREC we have focused on the passage task of the question answering track. The main aim of our participation was to test the impact of various t...
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...