We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answ...
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunit...
Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Chris Stauffer, W. Eric ...