Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Early question and answering (QA) systems focused on keyword search among documents for answers. However, such systems can only answer fact-based questions. It becomes clear that ...