The first Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) has been launched at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. This task is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
Information retrieval systems have typically concentrated on retrieving a set of documents which are relevant to a user's query. This paper describes a system that attempts t...
The Keyword Translator is a part of the Question Analyzer module in the JAVELIN Question-Answering system; it translates the keywords that are used to query documents and extract a...