Q&A: Star-map historian

Qa@l2f@qa@clef

This paper introduces L2F’s (INESC-ID) question/answering system and presents its results in the QA@CLEF07 evaluation task. QA@LF bases its performance on a high-quality deep linguistic analysis of the question, which is strongly based on named entity recognition. However, if a precise analysis is not possible or if no answer is found in previous processed data, the system is also capable of re...

Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

QA@L2F, Second Steps at QA@CLEF

This paper describes the participation of QA@LF, the question-answering system from LF/INESC-ID, at the QA track of CLEF in 2008. Making intensive use of a Natural Language Processing chain (which includes, among others, a morphological analyzer, a disambiguation module, a multi-word recognizer, a chunker and a named entities recognizer), QA@LF is based on a three module approach to answer ques...

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids