In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...
Abstract. This paper describes the results of the INAOE’s answer validation system evaluated at the Spanish track of the AVE 2007. The system is based on a supervised learning ap...
Information distillation is the task that aims to extract relevant passages of text from massive volumes of textual and audio sources, given a query. In this paper, we investigate...
The Keyword Translator is a part of the Question Analyzer module in the JAVELIN Question-Answering system; it translates the keywords that are used to query documents and extract a...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...