Many open domain question answering systems answer questions by first harvesting a large number of candidate answers, and then picking the most promising one from the list. One c...
Stefan Schlobach, David Ahn, Maarten de Rijke, Val...
Abduction is usually carried out on partially-defined predicates. In this paper we investigate abduction applied to fully-defined predicates, specifically linear arithmetic cons...
We describe WiQA 2006, a pilot task aimed at studying question answering using Wikipedia. Going beyond traditional factoid questions, the task considered at WiQA 2006 was to return...
Domain specific terminologies represent important concepts when students study a subject. If the sentences which describe important concepts related to a terminology can be accesse...
In Jijkoun et al. [2004] we showed that off-line answer extraction using syntactic patterns is a successful method for answering English factoid questions. In this paper I will di...