This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...
We describe Joost, our QA system for Dutch, which makes extensive use of dependency relations. We analyzed the full Dutch CLEF QA corpus syntactically and mined it off-line for i...
Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke ...
This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...