This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
This paper summarizes the results of our first participation at ResPubliQA. Lacking a true question answering system, we relied on our traditional search engine to find the answers...
This paper describes UAIC1 's Question Answering systems participating in the ResPubliQA 2010 competition, designed to answer questions on a juridical corpora in Romanian, Eng...
Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabat, Maria Husarciuc, M...
In this paper, we present a Question Answering system called KUQA (Korea University Question Answering system) developed by using semantic categories and co-occurrence density. Se...
Soo-Min Kim, Dae-Ho Baek, Sang-Beom Kim, Hae-Chang...
This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a large collection of documents. The prototype CNLP question answering system was...
Anne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong...
Recent TREC results have demonstrated the need for deeper text understanding methods. This paper introduces the idea of automated reasoning applied to question answering and shows...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda M. Harabag...
This paper demonstrates the applicability of automated reasoning to text processing, specifically to Question Answering. It is shown that the approach is feasible, effective, and ...
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
Question Answering systems are systems that enable the user to ask questions in natural language and to also receive an answer in natural language. Most existing systems, however,...