ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper summarizes the results of our first participation at ResPubliQA. Lacking a true question answering system, we relied on our traditional search engine to find the answers...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper describes UAIC1 's Question Answering systems participating in the ResPubliQA 2010 competition, designed to answer questions on a juridical corpora in Romanian, Eng...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
In this paper, we present a Question Answering system called KUQA (Korea University Question Answering system) developed by using semantic categories and co-occurrence density. Se...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a large collection of documents. The prototype CNLP question answering system was...
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
Recent TREC results have demonstrated the need for deeper text understanding methods. This paper introduces the idea of automated reasoning applied to question answering and shows...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
This paper demonstrates the applicability of automated reasoning to text processing, specifically to Question Answering. It is shown that the approach is feasible, effective, and ...
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Question Answering systems are systems that enable the user to ask questions in natural language and to also receive an answer in natural language. Most existing systems, however,...