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ACSC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Abstract. In the named entity normalization task, a system identifies a canonical unambiguous referent for names like Bush or Alabama. Resolving synonymy and ambiguity of such name...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007
This paper accounts for Priberam's participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF 2007. In previous participations, Priberam’s QA system obtained en...
Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira...
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
A Derivational Rephrasing Experiment for Question Answering
In Knowledge Management, variations in information expressions have proven a real challenge. In particular, classical semantic relations (e.g. synonymy) do not connect words with ...
Bernard Jacquemin
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Speech Interface for Open-Domain Question-Answering
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
Edward Schofield, Zhiping Zheng