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SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Building a question answering test collection
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
TREC
2000
15 years 1 months ago
Goal-Driven Answer Extraction
We describe the structure and functioning of an answer-extraction system built from the ground up, in only three person-months, using shallow text-processing techniques. Underlyin...
Michael Laszlo, Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme
NAACL
2003
15 years 1 months ago
Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003
This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Val...
ACL
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments
This paper describes an algorithm for propagating verb arguments along lexical chains consisting of WordNet relations. The algorithm creates verb argument structures using VerbNet...
Adrian Novischi, Dan I. Moldovan