We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...