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NDQA
2003
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AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System
The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answ...
Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
NDQA
2003
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Panel on Web-Based Question Answering
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Dragomir R. Radev
NDQA
2003
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Toward a Question Answering Roadmap
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Mark T. Maybury
NDQA
2003
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Answering Questions about Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos
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 ...
NDQA
2003
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Issues in Extraction and Categorization for Question Answering
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...
David Eichmann
NAACL
2003
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Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions
We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson
INTERACT
2003
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What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
ACL
2006
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K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain
We present a Korean question answering framework for restricted domains, called K-QARD. K-QARD is developed to achieve domain portability and robustness, and the framework is succ...
Young-In Song, Hoo-Jung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, Joo...
LREC
2008
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Evaluating Robustness Of A QA System Through A Corpus Of Real-Life Questions
This paper presents the sequential evaluation of the question answering system SQuaLIA. This system is based on the same sequential process as most statistical question answering ...
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, Philippe Blache
ECIR
2007
Springer
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Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz