This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
In this paper we describe the QuALiM Question Answering system which uses linguistic analysis of questions as well as candidate sentences in its answer finding process. To this en...
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...