The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...
The Slot Filling task requires a system to automatically distill information from a large document collection and return answers for a query entity with specified attributes (`slot...
Zheng Chen, Suzanne Tamang, Adam Lee, Xiang Li, Ma...
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
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...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...