Background: In the context of the BioCreative competition, where training data were very sparse, we investigated two complementary tasks: 1) given a Swiss-Prot triplet, containing...
Abstract. Our participation at ResPubliQA 2010 was based on applying an Information Retrieval (IR) engine of high performance and a validation step for removing incorrect answers. ...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
The focus of this paper is a question answering system, where the answers are retrieved from a collection of textual documents. The system also includes automatic document summariz...