The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
Background: The Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF) project has built a system to extract clinically significant information from the textual component of medical records in order...
Angus Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, ...
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...