This paper explores the role of information retrieval in answering "relationship" questions, a new class complex information needs formally introduced in TREC 2005. Sinc...
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...
CAS-ICT took part in the TREC conference for the first time this year. We have participated in three tracks of TREC-10. For adaptive filtering track, we paid more attention to fea...
Bin Wang, Hongbo Xu, Zhifeng Yang, Yue Liu, Xueqi ...
Each year NIST releases a set of question, document id, answer-triples for the factoid questions used in the TREC Question Answering track. While this resource is widely used and ...
In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of interest marking terms. “Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track...