This paper describes the online demo of the QuALiM Question Answering system. While the system actually gets answers from the web by querying major search engines, during presenta...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
In this paper we explore the application of fuzzy logic and data fusion techniques to improve the performance of passage retrieval in open domain Question Answering Systems (QAS). ...
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...