This article presents the first participation of the Avignon University Science Laboratory (LIA) to the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). LIA participated to the monolingual ...
Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, P...
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
We propose a novel method of determining the appropriateness of an answer to a question through a proof of logical relevance rather than a logical proof of truth. We define logic...
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Research on relevance feedback (RFB) in information retrieval (IR) has given mixed results. Success in RFB seems to depend on the searcher's willingness to provide feedback a...