Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions

We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based combining methods, as well as a number of distance metrics involving both word and character ngrams.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: John D. Burger, John C. Henderson
• Keywords: NAACL 2003, NAACL 2007, Question Answering, Question Answering Systems, Question Answering Task