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CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...
APWEB
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Web Based Question Answering with Aggregation Strategy
The Web is apparently an ideal source of answers to a large variety of questions, due to the tremendous amount of information available online. This paper describes a question answ...
Dell Zhang
WWW
2003
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
AnswerBus News Engine
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
Zhiping Zheng
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa...
OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Fuzzy Footprints
Gazetteer services are an important component in a wide variety of systems, including geographic search engines and question answering systems. Unfortunately, the footprints provid...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
ITRUST
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
IWTrust: Improving User Trust in Answers from the Web
Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Instance-Based Generation for Interactive Restricted Domain Question Answering Systems
Abstract. One important component of interactive systems is the generation component. While template-based generation is appropriate in many cases (for example, task oriented spoke...
Matthias Denecke, Hajime Tsukada
WILF
2007
Springer
101views Fuzzy Logic» more  WILF 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring the Application of Fuzzy Logic and Data Fusion Mechanisms in QAS
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
Daniel Ortiz Arroyo, Hans Ulrich Christensen
DAARC
2007
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  DAARC 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
"Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question Answering Series
Abstract. The capability of handling anaphora is becoming a key feature for Question Answering systems, as it can play a crucial role at different stages of the QA loop. At the qu...
Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov
CICLING
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-G&oac...