SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
IWRIDL
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facilitates the use of one language to access documents in other languages. Crosslanguage information extraction (CLIE) extracts releva...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Implicitly structured content on the Web such as HTML tables and lists can be extremely valuable for web search, question answering, and information retrieval, as the implicit str...
ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
In Cooper, part of the student support will be provided by a Question Answering application in the form of a webservice. Question Answering allows a user to use the content of proj...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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 ...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper accounts for Priberam's participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF 2007. In previous participations, Priberam’s QA system obtained en...
CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper describes QAST, a pilot track of CLEF 2007 aimed at evaluating the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. The paper summarizes the evaluation framework, the ...