In this paper, we describe UNED’s participation in the iCLEF 2005 track. We have compared two strategies for finding an answer using an interactive question answering system: i...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
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...
Abstract. Answer validation is an important component of any question answering system. In this paper we show how the formalism of prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction allows ...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
We provide three key missing pieces of a general theory of information distance [3, 23, 24]. We take bold steps in formulating a revised theory to avoid some pitfalls in practical...
We describe a new version of our question answering system, which was applied to the questions of the 2007 CLEF Question Answering Dutch monolingual task. This year, we made three ...
Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann, David Ahn, Mahboo...
This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...
Reflecting the rapid growth of information technology, the configuration of software applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, is both sophisticated and complicate...