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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Answering English Questions using Foreign-Language, Semi-Structured Sources
Despite continuing advances in machine translation technology, users who lack familiarity with particular foreign languages have no good way to find information in those languages...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan K...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and “Other” questions organized around a set of targets, ...
Hoa Trang Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy J. Lin
AAAI
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Answering Questions for an Organization Online
TheWorldWideWebcontinues to challenge organizations to makeonline access to their expertise convenient for their clients. Onemeansof expertise access that manyclients find conveni...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Kristian J. Hammond, Robin D...