We participated to the TREC-X QA main task and list task with a new system named QUANTUM, which analyzes questions with shallow parsing techniques and regular expressions. Instead...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
AnswerFinder combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information in various stages of the question answering process. The candidate sentences are preselected on the basis of (i)...
This paper describes our experiments on TREC 2007 Genomics Track which is concerned with question answering extraction from full-text biomedical literatures. In our experiment, na...
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang