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TREC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
Ashish Kumar Saxena, Ganesh Viswanath Sambhu, Saro...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
TREC
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-10 Question Answering Track
This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-10 questionanswering track. The question answering system described automatically finds ...
Jiangping Chen, Anne Diekema, Mary D. Taffet, Nanc...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
FLAIRS
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Mining Textual Answers with Knowledge-Based Indicators
This paper describes a knowledge-based methodologyof miningtextual answersinto large collections of texts. Wepresent SOMBRERO,a knowledge processing module implemented in the LASS...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca