Open Information Extraction extracts relations from text without requiring a pre-specified domain or vocabulary. While existing techniques have used only shallow syntactic featur...
Janara Christensen, Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Ore...
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...
Syntactic analysis of search queries is important for a variety of information-retrieval tasks; however, the lack of annotated data makes training query analysis models difficult...
Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Ryan T. McDonald, Slav...
The objective of the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2007 is to develop systems able to decide if the answer to a question is correct or not. Since it is expected that a high per...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...