ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
2012
Online forums are becoming a popular resource in the state of the art question answering (QA) systems. Because of its nature as an online community, it contains more updated knowl...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
2011
Springer
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
ESWS
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Springer
The Linked Open Data (LOD) is a major milestone towards realizing the Semantic Web vision, and can enable applications such as robust Question Answering (QA) systems that can answe...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
This paper demonstrates a conceptually simple but effective method of increasing the accuracy of QA systems on factoid-style questions. We define the notion of an inverted questio...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering (QA) system i...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper we suggest a QA pilot task, dubbed QolA, whose joint rationale is allow for collaboration among systems, increase multilinguality and multicollection use, and investi...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
In this poster, we will present the results of efforts we have undertaken to conduct evaluations of a QA system in a real world environment and to understand the nature of the dim...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
In interactive question answering (QA), users and systems take turns to ask questions and provide answers. In such an interactive setting, user questions largely depend on the ans...