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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.