This paper describes a knowledge-based methodologyof miningtextual answersinto large collections of texts. Wepresent SOMBRERO,a knowledge processing module implemented in the LASS...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
Finding patterns in temporal data is an important data analysis task in many domains. Static visualizations can help users easily see certain instances of patterns, but are not sp...
Many intractable problems such as NP-complete problems (provided P = NP) have easy subproblems. In contrast, we investigate the existence and the properties of inherently hard sub...
We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...