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AI
2002
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
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COLING
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
ACL
2003
14 years 11 months ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
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CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini
ECIR
2004
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Answer Selection in a Multi-stream Open Domain Question Answering System
Abstract. Question answering systems aim to meet users' information needs by returning exact answers in response to a question. Traditional open domain question answering syst...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke