Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
This article presents FIDJI, a question-answering (QA) system for French. FIDJI combines syntactic information with traditional QA techniques such as named entity recognition and t...
Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John M. Pra...