[PDF][PDF] The question answering systems: A survey

AMN Allam, MH Haggag - … Journal of Research and Reviews in …, 2012‏ - researchgate.net
Question Answering (QA) is a specialized area in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). The
QA systems are concerned with providing relevant answers in response to questions …

Accomplishments and challenges in literature data mining for biology

L Hirschman, JC Park, J Tsujii, L Wong, CH Wu - Bioinformatics, 2002‏ - academic.oup.com
We review recent results in literature data mining for biology and discuss the need and the
steps for a challenge evaluation for this field. Literature data mining has progressed from …

BabelNet: The automatic construction, evaluation and application of a wide-coverage multilingual semantic network

R Navigli, SP Ponzetto - Artificial intelligence, 2012‏ - Elsevier
We present an automatic approach to the construction of BabelNet, a very large, wide-
coverage multilingual semantic network. Key to our approach is the integration of …

[PDF][PDF] Learning question classifiers

X Li, D Roth - COLING 2002: The 19th International Conference …, 2002‏ - aclanthology.org
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts,
one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of the …

[PDF][PDF] BabelNet: Building a very large multilingual semantic network

R Navigli, SP Ponzetto - Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting …, 2010‏ - aclanthology.org
In this paper we present BabelNet–a very large, wide-coverage multilingual semantic
network. The resource is automatically constructed by means of a methodology that …

[كتاب][B] Handbook of natural language processing

N Indurkhya, FJ Damerau - 2010‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

[PDF][PDF] Learning surface text patterns for a question answering system

D Ravichandran, E Hovy - … of the 40th Annual meeting of the …, 2002‏ - aclanthology.org
In this paper we explore the power of surface text patterns for open-domain question
answering systems. In order to obtain an optimal set of patterns, we have developed a …

Natural language question answering: the view from here

L Hirschman, R Gaizauskas - natural language engineering, 2001‏ - cambridge.org
As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for
automated question answering systems becomes more urgent. We need systems that allow …

A survey on question answering technology from an information retrieval perspective

O Kolomiyets, MF Moens - Information Sciences, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This article provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of question answering
technology. It presents the question answering task from an information retrieval perspective …

[PDF][PDF] Report on trec-9

EM Voorhees - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2000‏ - dl.acm.org
The ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9) was held at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) on November 13-16, 2000. The conference was co …