This paper presents the DIOGENE question/answering system developed at ITCIrst. The system is based on a rather standard architecture which includes three components for question ...
In this paper, we propose an alignment-based surface pattern approach, called ABSP, which integrates semantic information into syntactic patterns for question answering (QA). ABSP...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
The RITEL project aims to integrate a spoken language dialogue system and an open-domain information retrieval system in order to enable human users to ask a general question and ...
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the e ects of applying pronominal anaphora resolution to Question Answering QA systems. For this task a complete QA system has been implem...