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TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Ellen M. Voorhees
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
TREC
2004
13 years 6 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
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adapting QA Components to Mine Answers in Speech Transcripts
Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptati...
Günter Neumann, Rui Wang