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IJCNLP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Re-examination of IR Techniques in QA System
The performance of Information Retrieval in the Question Answering system is not satisfactory from our experiences in TREC QA Track. In this article, we take a comparative study t...
Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
CICLING
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-G&oac...
DAWAK
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
The Evaluation of Sentence Similarity Measures
The ability to accurately judge the similarity between natural language sentences is critical to the performance of several applications such as text mining, question answering, an...
Palakorn Achananuparp, Xiaohua Hu, Xiajiong Shen
EMNLP
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters
NLP systems for tasks such as question answering and information extraction typically rely on statistical parsers. But the efficacy of such parsers can be surprisingly low, partic...
Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzion...