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CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
ECAI
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Type Checking in Open-Domain Question Answering
Open domain question answering (QA) systems have to bridge the potential vocabulary mismatch between a question and its candidate answers. One can view this as a recall problem and...
Stefan Schlobach, Marius Olsthoorn, Maarten de Rij...
COLING
2002
14 years 11 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
15 years 1 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
FINTAL
2006
15 years 3 months ago
A Text Mining Approach for Definition Question Answering
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Góm...