In this paper we describe our experiments in finding answers from documents based on statistical and linguistic knowledge. We collected the candidate answers from sources available...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
AnswerFinder combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information in various stages of the question answering process. The candidate sentences are preselected on the basis of (i)...
It is difficult to interact with computer displays that are across the room. A popular approach is to use laser pointers tracked by a camera, but interaction techniques using lase...
Brad A. Myers, Rishi Bhatnagar, Jeffrey Nichols, C...