University of Amsterdam
Informatics Institute
Christof Monz

Home

Projects

Research

Publications

Teaching

Activities

Other Stuff

Bio

From Document Retrieval
to Question Answering

PhD Thesis

Christof Monz

University of Amsterdam, 2003
ISBN 90-5776-116-5

Current question answering systems rely heavily on document retrieval as a means for identifying documents that are likely to contain an answer to a given question. This thesis examines the usefulness of various standard and novel document retrieval approaches in the context of question answering. More specifically, it compares them with respect to their ability to identify documents containing a correct answer. In addition, we investigate to what extent the quality of a particular document retieval approach has an impact on the overall perfomance of a specific question asnwering system.


Download the PhD thesis: [ PDF ]
 


large cover ]