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2002
Springer
14 years 11 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
SIGDIAL
2010
14 years 9 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
TREC
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Question Answering with LCC's CHAUCER-2 at TREC 2007
In TREC 2007, Language Computer Corporation explored how a new, semantically-rich framework for information retrieval could be used to boost the overall performance of the answer ...
Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Ben...
TREC
2003
15 years 1 months ago
QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
250views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 2 months ago
Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...