LEC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of data mining, question answering, and other information retrieval tasks. Documents often c...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
MM
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
MICAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents a novel approach to question answering: the use of argumentation techniques. Our question answering system deals with argumentation in student essays: it sees a...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
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 ...
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...