Rank similarity measures provide a method for quantifying differences between search
engine results without the need for relevance judgments. For example, the providers of a …

The Ephyra QA system has been developed as a flexible open-domain QA framework. This
framework allows us to combine several techniques for question analysis and answer …

Question answering (QA) is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural
language. Its applied to several domains, and it is a specific type of information retrieval, that …

Automated answering of natural language questions is an interesting and useful problem to
solve. Question answering (QA) systems often perform information retrieval at an initial …

Towards Multi-Stream Question Answering Using Answer Validation 1 Introduction Page 1
Informatica 34 (2010) 45–54 45 Towards Multi-Stream Question Answering Using Answer …

Question answering (QA) is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural
language. Currently, there exists several QA approaches, and, according to recent …

This paper introduces the new INAOE's answer validation method. This method is based on
supervised learning approach that uses a set of attributes that capture some lexical-syntactic …

In this paper, we present an approach to answering “Other” questions using the notion of
interest marking terms.“Other” questions have been introduced in the TREC-QA track to …

The importance of Question Answering is growing with the expansion of information and text
documents on the web. Techniques in Question Answering have significantly improved …

Many artificial intelligence tasks, such as automated question answering, reasoning or
heterogeneous database integration, involve verification of a semantic category (eg" coffee" …