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CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German
This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
Robert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Sc...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers
In this paper, we describe UNED’s participation in the iCLEF 2005 track. We have compared two strategies for finding an answer using an interactive question answering system: i...
Víctor Peinado, Fernando López-Osten...
RIAO
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Information Retrieval Systems aim at retrieving relevant documents according to the information needs which users express. Most Information Retrieval Systems focus on passage retr...
Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
TREC
2007
13 years 11 months ago
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev