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EKAW
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Scaling Up Question-Answering to Linked Data
Linked Data semantic sources, in particular DBpedia, can be used to answer many user queries. PowerAqua is an open multi-ontology Question Answering (QA) system for the Semantic We...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Marta Sabou, Victor...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Question Answering with LCC's CHAUCER-2 at TREC 2007
In TREC 2007, Language Computer Corporation explored how a new, semantically-rich framework for information retrieval could be used to boost the overall performance of the answer ...
Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Ben...
DAARC
2007
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  DAARC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
"Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question Answering Series
Abstract. The capability of handling anaphora is becoming a key feature for Question Answering systems, as it can play a crucial role at different stages of the QA loop. At the qu...
Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov