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TREC
2003
14 years 8 days ago
AnswerFinder in TREC 2003
In this our first participation in TREC we have focused on the passage task of the question answering track. The main aim of our participation was to test the impact of various t...
Diego Mollá Aliod
DKE
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A Framework of Evaluation for Question-Answering Systems
Evaluating complex system is a complex task. Evaluation campaigns are organized each year to test different systems on global results, but they do not evaluate the relevance of th...
Sarra El Ayari, Brigitte Grau
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007
This paper accounts for Priberam's participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF 2007. In previous participations, Priberam’s QA system obtained en...
Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira...
JASIS
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Building a reusable test collection for question answering
In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz