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...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
We take two paradigms for information systems development, functionalism and social relativism, and apply their assumptions to the evaluation of ambient information systems. Ambie...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we present a brief overview of our QA-system, which makes heavy use of syntacti...