In contrast to traditional information retrieval systems, which return ranked lists of documents that users must manually browse through, a question answering system attempts to d...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Each year NIST releases a set of question, document id, answer-triples for the factoid questions used in the TREC Question Answering track. While this resource is widely used and ...
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Question Answering (QA) is a task that deserves more collaboration between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Representation (KR) communities, not only to introduce r...