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CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
DKE
2008
104views more  DKE 2008»
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
LREC
2010
180views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
A Comprehensive Resource to Evaluate Complex Open Domain Question Answering
We describe two corpora of question and answer pairs collected for complex, open-domain Question Answering (QA) to enable answer classification and re-ranking experiments. We deli...
Silvia Quarteroni, Alessandro Moschitti
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin