Question Answering (QA) targets answering questions defined in natural language.
Question Answering Systems offer an automated approach to procuring solutions to queries …

State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ term-density ranking to retrieve
answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among …

With the recent rapid growth of the Semantic Web (SW), the processes of searching and
querying content that is both massive in scale and heterogeneous have become …

Natural language analysis systems which combine knowledge-based and corpus-based
methods are now becoming accurate enough to be used in various applications. We …

The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become
widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel …

The vast amounts of information readily available on the World Wide Web can be effectively
used for question answering in two fundamentally different ways. In the federated approach …

We describe the construction of a generic natural language query interface to an XML
database. Our interface can accept an arbitrary English sentence as a query, which can be …

Despite the intuition that linguistically sophisticated techniques should be beneficial to
question answering, real gains in performance have yet to be demonstrated empirically in a …

The tremendous development in information technology led to an explosion of data and
motivated the need for powerful yet efficient strategies for data mining and knowledge …

We describe the construction of a generic natural language query interface to an XML
database. Our interface can accept a large class of English sentences as a query, which can …