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AIRS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Junkuo Cao, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, ...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
Ellen M. Voorhees
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using N-Gram Models to Combine Query Translations in Cross-Language Question Answering
This paper presents a method for cross-language question answering. The method combines multiple query translations in order to improve the answering precision. The combination of ...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Luis Villaseño...