This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...
Abstract. This paper describes two procedures for generating very short summaries for documents from the DUC-2003 competition: a chunk extraction method based on syntactic dependen...
Previous works on automatic query clustering most generate a flat, un-nested partition of query terms. In this work, we are pursuing to organize query terms into a hierarchical s...
We consider the problem of browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We describe an interactive relevance feedback agent that a...
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...