Archive for March, 2007
POTW: 3/11/07: “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering” by Moldovan, et. al.
Following on from last weeks look at Language Computer Corporations TREC 2003 entry, we are going to dig deeper into the theorem prover part of the system and look at “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering” by Moldovan, et. al.
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POTW 3/4/07: Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning by Harabagiu, et. al.
This weeks paper, “Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning“, lays out, at a high level, the capabilities of the highest performing QA system at TREC 2003, namely Language Computer Corporation’s QA system. The first section or two lay out the groundwork for the competition, much as was already done in the Voorhees [...]
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POTW 3/4/07: Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning by Harabagiu, et. al.
Building on our discussion of TREC 2003 QA track from last week, we will examine the top performing system from Language Computer Corporation via their paper: Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning available from the TREC 2003 proceedings located here.
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POTW 2/26/07: Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track by Voorhees
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track by Voorhees is a nice introduction to the QA task, as defined by TREC. The first two sections layout the two main tasks:
The Passages Task
Main Task - Divided into three sub tasksFactoids
Lists
DefinitionsThe passages task is used to test whether a QA system can find factoids in [...]
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