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CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Finding Answers to Indonesian Questions from English Documents
Abstract. Our report describes the results of work in our participation in the IndonesianEnglish question-answering task of the 2006 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this...
Mirna Adriani, Rinawati
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AI
2002
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
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AIIA
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
86
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CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts Using Minimal Syntactic Analysis
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu
TREC
2001
14 years 11 months ago
Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
Martin M. Soubbotin