In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
This paper presents ongoing work dedicated to parsing the textual structure of procedural texts. We propose here a model for the intructional structure and criteria to identify it...
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...