Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Creating more fine-grained annotated data than previously relevent document sets is important for evaluating individual components in automatic question answering systems. In this...
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...