The Web is apparently an ideal source of answers to a large variety of questions, due to the tremendous amount of information available online. This paper describes a question answ...
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
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 ...