AnswerFinder combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information in various stages of the question answering process. The candidate sentences are preselected on the basis of (i)...
This paper describes the participation of the School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor in the 2004 Text Retrieval Conference. We present additions and modications to the...
In our system, we make use of Chunk information to analyze the question. A multilevel method is fulfilled to retrieve candidate Bi-sentences. As to answer selecting, we proposed a...
Statistical model in retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. Extended Boolean model has been widely used in business system for its easiness to be complemented and n...
In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...