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TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Clues and Lexical Resources in Question-Answering
CL Research's question-answering system (DIMAP-QA) for TREC-9 significantly extends its semantic relation triple (logical form) technology in which documents are fully parsed...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant Documents
There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query ex...
Walter Liggett, Chris Buckley
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Goal-Driven Answer Extraction
We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
Michael Laszlo, Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCS
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering Considering Semantic Categories and Co-Occurrence Density
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...
Soo-Min Kim, Dae-Ho Baek, Sang-Beom Kim, Hae-Chang...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-9 at Cambridge University
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University for the TREC-9 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The CUHTK transcriptions from TREC-8 with Word Error Rate (WER) of 20.5...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Ph...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
TREC-9 CLIR at CUHK: Disambiguation by Similarity Values Between Adjacent Words
We investigated the dictionary-based query translation method combining the translation disambiguation process using statistic cooccurrence information trained from the provided c...
Honglan Jin, Kam-Fai Wong
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering in Webclopedia
Eduard H. Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, Mich...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
FALCON: Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca,...
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Sheffield Interactive Experiment at TREC-9
Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Helene Fowkes, Hideo J...