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TREC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
SiteQ: Engineering High Performance QA System Using Lexico-Semantic Pattern Matching and Shallow NLP
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms
For our second participation to the Question Answering task of CLEF, we kept last year’s system named MUSCLEF, which uses two translation strategies implemented in two modules. ...
Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba,...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for re-ranking search results
We present a novel language-model-based approach to reranking an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. Our model integrates whole-document information ...
Eyal Krikon, Oren Kurland, Michael Bendersky
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SLOQUE: slot-based query expansion for complex questions
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...
TREC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...