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TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering
In this paper we present a new Question Answering (QA) system based on redundancy and a new Passage Retrieval (PR) method oriented to QA. We suppose that in a large enough document...
José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Manuel Mo...
ICADL
2005
Springer
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iQA: An Intelligent Question Answering System
Question answering (QA) is the study on the methodology that returns exact answers to natural language questions. This paper attempts to increase the coverage and accuracy of QA sy...
Zhiguo Gong, Mei Pou Chan
EPIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Passage Retrieval in Question Answering Using NLP
Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
Jörg Tiedemann
CLEF
2005
Springer
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UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers
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...
Víctor Peinado, Fernando López-Osten...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German
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...
Robert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Sc...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñ...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
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...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...
CICLING
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Learning the Query Generation Patterns
Abstract. With the current method of query formation, a Question Answering system retrieves a set of documents that are similar to a question, while what is mostly required is a se...
Marcin Skowron, Kenji Araki
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...