In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
RAVE (Real-time Answer Validation Engine) is a logic-based answer validator/selector designed for real-time question answering. Instead of proving a hypothesis for each answer, RAV...
Three CBR systems were created to improve customer support at General Electric Appliances. The first tool helped call takers answer customers’ questions by using a case base of ...