State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
We describe a task-based evaluation to determine whether multi-document summaries measurably improve user performance when using online news browsing systems for directed research...
Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David K. ...
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Information extraction is concerned with applying natural language processing to automatically extract the essential details from text documents. A great disadvantage of current ap...
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...