INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
In contrast with the booming increase of internet data, state-of-art QA (question answering) systems, otherwise, concerned data from specific domains or resources such as search e...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2002
ACM
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
ISCI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
2009
Springer
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
2009
Springer
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
2009
Springer
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
TREC
2007
14 years 20 days ago
2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...