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NDQA
2003
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15 years 4 months ago
Knowledge Tracking: Answering Implicit Questions
Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005
This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...
WWW
2001
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
AIRS
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Junkuo Cao, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, ...