Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...