Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
There is a significant need for data integration capabilities in the scientific domain, which has manifested itself as products in the commercial world as well as academia. Howeve...
Brenton Louie, Landon Detwiler, Nilesh N. Dalvi, R...
Information extraction systems have been dealt with at length from the viewpoint of users posing definite questions whose expected answer is to be found in a document collection. T...
In this paper we discuss a screening process used in conjunction with a survey administered via Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. We sought an easily implementable method to disqual...
Julie S. Downs, Mandy B. Holbrook, Steve Sheng, Lo...
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...