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In information retrieval, question answering ( QA ) is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language. To find the answer to a question, a QA computer program may use eit...
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Come check out our demos and ask our systems questions in English! The MIT InfoLab Group develops intelligent interactive software systems that help people access information and solve problems on human terms. ... START, the world's first Web-based question answering system, Unlike information retrieval systems (e.g.,
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Recent experiments in programming natural language question-answering systems are reviewed to summarize the methods that have been developed for syntactic, semantic, and logical analysis of English strings.
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361963
; Type in your question in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese ... Bibliogrphy on Question Answering; Question Corpus; Courses Related to Question Answering; Other Online Systems; Sentence Segmenter; Related Word Finder;
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We describe an investigation of the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide resource-intensive procedures used by a Web-based question answering system. We first provide an overview of research on question-answering systems.
research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/qa-dt.ht... research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/qa-dt.htm
homepage of Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF ... The Answer Validation Exercise in its third round will be aimed at evaluating answer validation systems based on Recognizing Textual Entailment; ... QAST will focus on Question Answering over speech transcription of seminars;
clef-qa.itc.it/
Dr. Günter Neumann, DFKI: Information Extraction and Question-Answering Systems: Foundations and methods ... When? Lecture: Friday, 14-16, Bau 17.2, seminar room; ... Lecture course (Vorlesung) for graduate students in computer science and computational linguistics, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken.
www.dfki.de/~neumann/qa-course.html
Previous works on evaluating the performance of Question Answering (QA) systems are focused in the evaluation of the precision. Nevertheless, the importance of the answer time never has been evaluated. ... TI - Evaluation of Open-Domain Question Answering Systems within a Time Constraint; SN - 0-7695-2847-3; SP260; EP265;
doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/AINAW.2007.176
The research in this paper makes explicit why existing measures for response quality evaluation is not suitable for the ever-evolving field of question answering and following that, a short-term solution for evaluating response quality of heterogeneous systems is put forward. ... Wilson Wong, Shahrin Sahib,
doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI.2005.61
INTEGRATING STATISTICAL AND LINGUISTIC APPROACHES IN BUILDING INTELLIGENT QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS Miroslav Martinovi ... Query processing is done from both angles (statistical -- extracting its key terms) and linguistic (parsing it into a semantic representation). After statistical retrieval of document,
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