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CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Approaching Question Answering by Means of Paragraph Validation
In this paper we describe the system we developed for taking part in monolingual Spanish and English tasks at ResPubliQA 2009. Our system was composed by an IR phase focused on im...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez...
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
DUTIR at TREC 2007 Genomics Track
This paper describes our experiments on TREC 2007 Genomics Track which is concerned with question answering extraction from full-text biomedical literatures. In our experiment, na...
Zhihao Yang, Hongfei Lin, Baojin Cui, Yanpeng Li, ...
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
Ashish Kumar Saxena, Ganesh Viswanath Sambhu, Saro...
ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli