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FINTAL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Support for Question-Answering in Interactive Information Retrieval: Rutgers' TREC-9 Interactive Track Experience
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval
The Question Answering Task requires user interaction. Users can help the system by reformulating the questions, adding information to them or selecting the documents on which the ...
Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodr&iac...
AIIA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The QuALiM Question Answering Demo: Supplementing Answers with Paragraphs drawn from Wikipedia
This paper describes the online demo of the QuALiM Question Answering system. While the system actually gets answers from the web by querying major search engines, during presenta...
Michael Kaisser