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SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 12 hour ago
Building a question answering test collection
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Rasch Analysis of Question Answering Evaluations
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai