We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...
The PISAB Question Answering system is based on a combination of Information Extraction and Information Retrieval techniques. Knowledge extracted from documents is modeled as a se...
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 novel approach to question answering: the use of argumentation techniques. Our question answering system deals with argumentation in student essays: it sees a...
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...