This is the second year that Dalhousie University actively participated in TREC. Three runs were submitted for the Question Answering track. Our results are below the median; however, they’re signifantly larger than minimal, the lesson learnt will guide our future development of the system. Our approach was based on a mark-and-match methodology with regular expression rewriting.
['Tony Abou-Assaleh', 'Nick Cercone', 'Jon Doyle', 'Vlado Keselj', 'Chris Whidden']
DalTREC 2005 QA System Jellyfish: Mark-and-Match Approach to Question Answering