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2002
Springer
13 years 8 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
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Modeling for Answering Prediction Questions: Selecting the Time Scale and System Boundary
The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
Jeff Rickel, Bruce W. Porter
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Dealing with Spoken Requests in a Multimodal Question Answering System
Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
Roberto Gretter, Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Natural Language Annotations for Question Answering
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin