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TREC
2007
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Drexel at TREC 2007: Question Answering
The TREC Question Answering Track presented several distinct challenges to participants in 2007. Participants were asked to create a system which discovers the answers to factoid ...
Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han
TREC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and “Other” questions organized around a set of targets, ...
Hoa Trang Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy J. Lin
TREC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measur...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev
TREC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition
A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
Ashish Kumar Saxena, Ganesh Viswanath Sambhu, Saro...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track
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...
Anne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
The PISAB Question Answering System
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Cristian Burrini
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task
This paper describes a question answering system and its various modules to solve definition, factoid and list questions defined in the TREC12 Main task. In particular, we tackle ...
Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu...
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
AnswerFinder in TREC 2003
In this our first participation in TREC we have focused on the passage task of the question answering track. The main aim of our participation was to test the impact of various t...
Diego Mollá Aliod
NDQA
2003
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Knowledge Tracking: Answering Implicit Questions
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...