This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Reflecting the rapid growth of information technology, the configuration of software applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, is both sophisticated and complicate...
This paper addresses the issue of extracting contexts and answers of questions from post discussion of online forums. We propose a novel and unified model by customizing the struc...