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CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 Track
Abstract. In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational ling...
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems
This paper presents a multi-layered Question Answering (Q.A.) architecture suitable for enhancing current Q.A. capabilities with the possibility of processing complex questions. T...
Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Ra...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
DKE
2008
104views more  DKE 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Using dependency parsing and machine learning for factoid question answering on spoken documents
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Lluís Màrqu...