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TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Ellen M. Voorhees
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
DKE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. F...