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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
ICADL
2004
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...
Jian Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Applying Data Fusion Methods to Passage Retrieval in QAS
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results o...
Hans Ulrich Christensen, Daniel Ortiz Arroyo
FINTAL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
TSD
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering
In this paper we present a new Question Answering (QA) system based on redundancy and a new Passage Retrieval (PR) method oriented to QA. We suppose that in a large enough document...
José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Manuel Mo...