Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing linkbased vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently wor...
We show how the recognition performance of a speech recognition component in a speech retrieval system affects the retrieval effectiveness. A speech retrieval system facilitates c...
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
This paper describes our experiments on TREC 2007 Genomics Track which is concerned with question answering extraction from full-text biomedical literatures. In our experiment, na...