: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Question Answering track. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approach to the QA task, especially to the so-c...
David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Karin M...
In this paper we describe the QuALiM Question Answering system which uses linguistic analysis of questions as well as candidate sentences in its answer finding process. To this en...
CL Research participated in the question answering and novelty tracks in TREC 2004. The Knowledge Management System (KMS), which provides a single interface for question answering...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...