This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-10 questionanswering track. The question answering system described automatically finds ...
Jiangping Chen, Anne Diekema, Mary D. Taffet, Nanc...
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...