Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
This paper describes an algorithm for propagating verb arguments along lexical chains consisting of WordNet relations. The algorithm creates verb argument structures using VerbNet...
Although answering list questions is not a new research area, answering them automatically still remains a challenge. The median F-score of systems that participated in TREC 2007 ...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
This paper describes a question answering system and its various modules to solve definition, factoid and list questions defined in the TREC12 Main task. In particular, we tackle ...
Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu...