Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Text categorization, as an essential component of applications for user navigation on the World Wide Web using QuestionAnswering in Japanese, requires more effective features for ...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Information relevance is an important issue in information access techniques. A solution for improving this relevance is the personalization or adaptation of the answers provided ...