For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discourse markers and the vocalic hesitation euh in a corpus of spoken human utterances collected with the RITEL sys...
Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Decke...
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
In this paper we present a new Question Answering (QA) system based on redundancy and a new Passage Retrieval (PR) method oriented to QA. We suppose that in a large enough document...
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...