We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
We present a novel graph ranking model to extract a diverse set of answers for complex questions via random walks over a negative-edge graph. We assign a negative sign to edge weig...
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...