In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CL...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...