We focused on two issues: answer selection and confidence estimation. We found that some simple constraints on the candidate answers can improve a pure IR-based technique for answ...
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller...
HITIQA is an interactive question answering technology designed to allow intelligence analysts and other users of information systems to pose questions in natural language and obt...
Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunit...
Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Chris Stauffer, W. Eric ...
With the ever-increasing amount of textual information available, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that a single document will provide the answer to a question. A more likely ...
1 While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction ─ to handle ...