This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...
In our system, we make use of Chunk information to analyze the question. A multilevel method is fulfilled to retrieve candidate Bi-sentences. As to answer selecting, we proposed a...
This paper describes the participation of the School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor in the 2004 Text Retrieval Conference. We present additions and modications to the...
We provide a description of the QACTIS question-answering system and its application to and performance in the 2004 TREC question-answering evaluation. Since this was also QACTIS&...
Patrick Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, Gary M. Ciany...
The TREC Question Answering Track presented several distinct challenges to participants in 2007. Participants were asked to create a system which discovers the answers to factoid ...