Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
This paper presents the DIOGENE question/answering system developed at ITCIrst. The system is based on a rather standard architecture which includes three components for question ...
The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...