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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
LREC
2010
187views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
FIDJI: Web Question-Answering at Quaero 2009
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
TREC 2003 Question Answering Track at CAS-ICT
In our system, we make use of Chunk information to analyze the question. A multilevel method is fulfilled to retrieve candidate Bi-sentences. As to answer selecting, we proposed a...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar