In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
In TREC 2007, Language Computer Corporation explored how a new, semantically-rich framework for information retrieval could be used to boost the overall performance of the answer ...
Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Ben...