For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
Implicitly structured content on the Web such as HTML tables and lists can be extremely valuable for web search, question answering, and information retrieval, as the implicit str...
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...