It is important for future NLP systems to formulate the semantic equivalence (and more generally, the semantic similarity) of natural language expressions. In particular, paraphra...
This paper reports on our participation in CLEF 2005‘s ad-hoc multi-lingual retrieval track. The ad-hoc task introduced Bulgarian and Hungarian as new languages. Our experiments...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
This paper describes a method, using Genetic Programming, to automatically determine term weighting schemes for the vector space model. Based on a set of queries and their human de...