In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
During the last few years, a lot of researches have focused on automatic definition extraction in the context of question answering systems. Although, these researches have been co...
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
We have developed a method for answering single answer questions automatically using a collection of documents or the Internet as a source of data for the production of the answer...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...