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TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Question Answering with LCC's CHAUCER-2 at TREC 2007
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...
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
THUIR at TREC 2004: QA
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
Wei Tan 0002, Qunxiu Chen, Shaoping Ma
EMNLP
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
FSKD
2006
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Maximum Entropy Model Based Answer Extraction for Chinese Question Answering
We regard answer extraction of Question Answering (QA) system as a classification problem, classifying answer candidate sentences into positive or negative. To confirm the feasibil...
Ang Sun, Minghu Jiang, Yanjun Ma
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Bilingual System MUSCLEF at QA@CLEF 2006
This paper presents our bilingual question-answering system MUSCLEF. We underline the difficulties encountered when shifting from a mono to a cross-lingual system, then we focus o...
Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba,...
AI
2003
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Answer Formulation for Question-Answering
In this paper, we describe our experimentations in answer formulation for question-answering (QA) systems. In the context of QA, answer formulation can serve two purposes: improvin...
Leila Kosseim, Luc Plamondon, Louis-Julien Guillem...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy