For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...