In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
Question classification is very important for question answering. This paper presents our research work on automatic question classification through machine learning approaches. W...
Our aim of participating in this year’s High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track is to explore the possibility of developing an automated HARD retrieval model by leve...