Concordia University at the TAC-2008 QA Track
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In this paper, we describe the system we used for the Tac-2008 Question Answering track. Our Rigid question answerer uses a classification method to group candidate answers into relevant and irrelevant classes based on the co-occurrence information of each pair of candidate answers. To answer Squishy types of questions, our system extracts from Wikipedia articles a list of interest-marking terms and uses them to extract and score sentences from the Blog06 document collections using various interest-marking triggers.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008