Abstract. Question answering systems users may find answers without any supporting information insufficient for determining trust levels. Once those question answering systems beg...
Ilya Zaihrayeu, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L...
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...