This paper reports on our approach to the NTCIR-11 QALab task of answering questions from Japanese National Center Examinations for University Admissions. Our approach aims at identifying and comparing periods of world history in both the questions and the answer candidates. We cre
['Yasutomo Kimura', 'Fumitoshi Ashihara', 'Arnaud Jordan', 'Keiichi Takamaru', 'Yuzu Uchida', 'Hokuto Ototake', 'Hideyuki Shibuki', 'Michal Ptaszynski', 'Rafal Rzepka', 'Fumito Masui', 'Kenji Araki']
Using Time Periods Comparison for Eliminating Chronological Discrepancies between Question and Answer Candidates at QALab NTCIR11 Task