Towards a Multi-Stream Question Answering-As-XML-Retrieval Strategy

نویسندگان

  • David Ahn
  • Sisay Fissaha Adafre
  • Valentin Jijkoun
  • Karin Müller
  • Maarten de Rijke
  • Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
چکیده

We describe our participation in the TREC 2005 Question Answering track; our main focus this year was on improving our multi-stream approach to question answering and on making a first step towards a question answering-as-XML retrieval strategy. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to the QA task, report on our results, and give a summary of our findings.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005