Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...