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SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Syntactic features in question answering
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Xiaoyan Li
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Finding similar questions in large question and answer archives
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007
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...
Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira...
ACSC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh