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TREC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Using Wikipedia at the TREC QA Track
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Question Answering track. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approach to the QA task, especially to the so-c...
David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Karin M...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 11 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
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft