Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...
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, ...
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and “Other” questions organized around a set of targets, ...
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...