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NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma
CICLING
2010
Springer
12 years 12 months ago
An Empirical Study on the Feature's Type Effect on the Automatic Classification of Arabic Documents
The Arabic language is a highly flexional and morphologically very rich language. It presents serious challenges to the automatic classification of documents, one of which is deter...
Saeed Raheel, Joseph Dichy
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Following the pilot Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003, a new evaluation exercise for multilingual QA systems took place in 2004. This paper reports on the novelties introduced...
Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ay...
IR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
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