The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
This paper describes the work done by the RFIA group at the Departamento de Sistemas Inform´aticos y Computaci´on of the Universidad Polit´ecnica of Valencia for the 2007 editio...
Davide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Em...