COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
TREC
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
FINTAL
2006
14 years 4 months ago
2006
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
NLDB
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
During the last few years, a lot of researches have focused on automatic definition extraction in the context of question answering systems. Although, these researches have been co...
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Following the pilot Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003, a new evaluation exercise for multilingual QA systems took place in 2004. This paper reports on the novelties introduced...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...