Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Abstract. In this paper we present an approach to question answering over heterogeneous knowledge sources that makes use of different ontology management components within the sce...
Stephan Bloehdorn, Philipp Cimiano, Alistair Duke,...