In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
The Question Answering Task requires user interaction. Users can help the system by reformulating the questions, adding information to them or selecting the documents on which the ...
Despite continuing advances in machine translation technology, users who lack familiarity with particular foreign languages have no good way to find information in those languages...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan K...
We present a new technique for question answering called Predictive Annotation. Predictive Annotation identifies potential answers to questions in text, annotates them accordingly...
John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Dragomi...