This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2006 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mand...
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
The application of nlp techniques to improve the results of information retrieval is still considered as a controversial issue, whereas nlp techniques in cross-language informatio...