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CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to ...
Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster
NAACL
2003
14 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
KDD
2004
ACM
162views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Discovering Links Between Lexical and Surface Features in Questions and Answers
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Soumen Chakrabarti
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts Using Minimal Syntactic Analysis
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu
EPIA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Improving Passage Retrieval in Question Answering Using NLP
Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
Jörg Tiedemann