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TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track
This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a large collection of documents. The prototype CNLP question answering system was...
Anne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
CICLING
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
NLP for Shallow Question Answering of Legal Documents Using Graphs
Abstract. Previous work has shown that modeling relationships between articles of a regulation as vertices of a graph network works twice as better than traditional information ret...
Alfredo Monroy, Hiram Calvo, Alexander F. Gelbukh
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 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...
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