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TREC
2007
13 years 9 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
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
AIRS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Junkuo Cao, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, ...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
ACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...