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WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system DIOGENE. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. DI...
Hristo Tanev, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Mile...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering Track
The fifth QA campaign at CLEF, the first having been held in 2006. was characterized by continuity with the past and at the same time by innovation. In fact, topics were introduce...
Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Jesús He...
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld