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CLEF
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Following the pilot Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003, a new evaluation exercise for multilingual QA systems took place in 2004. This paper reports on the novelties introduced...
Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ay...
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
NDQA
2003
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15 years 4 months ago
Panel on Web-Based Question Answering
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Dragomir R. Radev
ECIR
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text
We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...