In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CL...
This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...