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COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew 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
FINTAL
2006
13 years 7 months ago
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Góm...
NLDB
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An Automatic Definition Extraction in Arabic Language
During the last few years, a lot of researches have focused on automatic definition extraction in the context of question answering systems. Although, these researches have been co...
Omar Trigui, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Paolo Rosso
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Following the pilot Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003, a new evaluation exercise for multilingual QA systems took place in 2004. This paper reports on the novelties introduced...
Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ay...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...