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NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
TREC
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Oracle at TREC 10: Filtering and Question-Answering
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions
This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
Jimmy J. Lin
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques
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...
Jimmy J. Lin, Boris Katz