The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...