Applying Data Fusion Methods to Passage Retrieval in QAS

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  • Hans Ulrich Christensen
  • Daniel Ortiz Arroyo
چکیده

This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results obtained with 13 data fusion methods and 8 passage retrieval systems show that data fusion techniques are capable of improving the performance of a passage retrieval system by 6.43% and 11.32% in terms of the mean reciprocal rank and coverage measures respectively.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007