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CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task i...
James Allan, Ben Carterette, Joshua Lewis
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
Martin M. Soubbotin
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou
TREC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
PiQASso: Pisa Question Answering System
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...