Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
This paper addresses the issue of extracting contexts and answers of questions from post discussion of online forums. We propose a novel and unified model by customizing the struc...
This paper discusses our system’s results at the Spanish Question Answering task of CLEF 2007. Our system is centered in a full data-driven approach that combines information ret...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
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...