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CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cross Lingual Question Answering Using QRISTAL for CLEF 2006
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...
Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days 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...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring Syntactic Relation Patterns for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we explore the syntactic relation patterns for opendomain factoid question answering. We propose a pattern extraction method to extract the various relatio...
Dan Shen, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Dietrich Klakow