Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
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 ...
We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing linkbased vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently wor...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...