We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
We describe Joost, our QA system for Dutch, which makes extensive use of dependency relations. We analyzed the full Dutch CLEF QA corpus syntactically and mined it off-line for i...
Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke ...
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, ...
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...