The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
This paper describes a question answering system and its various modules to solve definition, factoid and list questions defined in the TREC12 Main task. In particular, we tackle ...
Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu...
This paper describes the creation of a state-of-the-art answer type detection system capable of recognizing more than 200 different expected answer types with greater than 85% pre...
Gradient boosting is a flexible machine learning technique that produces accurate predictions by combining many weak learners. In this work, we investigate its use in two applica...
Bin Zhang, Abhinav Sethy, Tara N. Sainath, Bhuvana...
Many sequence labeling tasks in NLP require solving a cascade of segmentation and tagging subtasks, such as Chinese POS tagging, named entity recognition, and so on. Traditional p...