Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
The field of Psychometrics routinely grapples with the question of what it means to measure the inherent ability of an organism to perform a given task, and for the last forty yea...
Rense Lange, Juan Moran, Warren R. Greiff, Lisa Fe...
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
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, ...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...