This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...