Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored t...
Abstract. It is an up-to-date challenge to get answers for novel questions which nobody has ever considered. Such a question is too rare to be satisfied with a past single documen...
Abstract. This paper describes the results of the INAOE’s answer validation system evaluated at the Spanish track of the AVE 2007. The system is based on a supervised learning ap...
This paper is about non-approximate acceleration of high-dimensional nonparametric operations such as k nearest neighbor classifiers. We attempt to exploit the fact that even if w...