Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R....
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...