ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main Task
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This is the second time we participate in the TREC-QA track. We put emphasis on candidate passage ranking and answer matching. As to named entity tagging, we applied the latest version of GATE and did some succeeding work aiming at our goal. This paper presents our methods in detail.
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