CICLING
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
APWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
The Web is apparently an ideal source of answers to a large variety of questions, due to the tremendous amount of information available online. This paper describes a question answ...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
ITRUST
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. One important component of interactive systems is the generation component. While template-based generation is appropriate in many cases (for example, task oriented spoke...
WILF
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
DAARC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. The capability of handling anaphora is becoming a key feature for Question Answering systems, as it can play a crucial role at different stages of the QA loop. At the qu...
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...