This paper describes a preliminary investigation into automatic assessment of reading comprehension in young children. In particular we studied the feasibility of automatic scorin...
This paper describes the baselines proposed for the ResPubliQA 2009 task. These baselines are purely based on information retrieval techniques. The selection of an adequate retrie...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
This paper is about our approach to answer validation, which centered by a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) core engine. We first combined the question and the answer into Hypo...
Relational search is a novel paradigm of search which focuses on the similarity between semantic relations. Given three words (A, B, C) as the query, a relational search engine ret...