Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
In this paper we describe the QuALiM Question Answering system which uses linguistic analysis of questions as well as candidate sentences in its answer finding process. To this en...
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang