Publication Abstract

Pack, D., Weinstein, C. J. (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), The Use of Dynamic Segment Scoring for Language-Independent Question Answering, Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, J. Allan, ed., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2001.

Abstract

This paper presents a novel language-independent question/answering (Q/A) system based on natural language processing techniques, shallow query understanding, dynamic sliding window techniques, and statistical proximity distribution matching techniques. The performance of the proposed system using the latest Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8) data was comparable to results reported by the top TREC contenders.