Questions are not asked in isolation. Their context, viz. the preceding interactions, might be of help to understand them and retrieve the correct answer. Previous research in Int...
Raffaella Bernardi, Manuel Kirschner, Zorana Ratko...
Abstract. This paper describes the results of the INAOE’s answer validation system evaluated at the Spanish track of the AVE 2007. The system is based on a supervised learning ap...
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Abstract. The availability of the logical structure of documents in contentoriented XML retrieval can be beneficial for users of XML retrieval systems. However, research into struc...
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...