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TREC
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Support for Question-Answering in Interactive Information Retrieval: Rutgers' TREC-9 Interactive Track Experience
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
TREC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
The QUANTUM Question Answering System
We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...
Luc Plamondon, Guy Lapalme, Leila Kosseim
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti