This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user's needs has recei...
Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other externa...
Classifying what-type questions into proper semantic categories is found more challenging than classifying other types in question answering systems. In this paper, we propose to ...