Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
This paper presents a Flexible Question Answering System (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based Information Retrieval (IR) System together with a q...
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results o...