We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their
evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for …

End-to-end question answering system has attracted considerable attention in the artificial
intelligence research community in recent years. In this paper, we proposed an integrated …

We propose a hybrid architecture for the NTCIR-5 CLQA CC (Cross Language Question
Answering from Chinese to Chinese) Task. Our system, the Academia Sinica Question …

Question classification plays an important role in cross-language question answering
(CLQA) systems, while question Informer plays a key role in enhancing question …

Question Answering (QA) research has been conducted in many languages. Nearly all the
top performing systems use heavy methods that require sophisticated techniques, such as …

In this paper, we propose an alignment-based surface pattern approach, called ABSP, which
integrates semantic information into syntactic patterns for question answering (QA). ABSP …

Assessment is a fundamental activity to realize the objective of a course and to enhance the
teaching learning process. Ensuring quality in the question papers for testing the different …

This paper presents a method which improves the performance of Vector Space Model
(VSM) when applying it to Chinese Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). This method …

Question classification (QC) plays a key role in automated question answering (QA)
systems. In Chinese QC, for example, a question is analyzed and then labeled with the …

Question Answering (QA) Systems allow the user to ask questions in a natural language and
obtain an exact answer. Through this thesis work, we tried to learn the important issues in …