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...
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...
Each year NIST releases a set of question, document id, answer-triples for the factoid questions used in the TREC Question Answering track. While this resource is widely used and ...
Abstract. This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcri...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel...
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...