This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Question Answering track. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approach to the QA task, especially to the so-c...
David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Karin M...
In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...
In this paper, we describe the system we used for the trec-2007 Question Answering Track. For factoid questions our redundancy-based approach using a modified version of aranea w...
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R....