Question Answering With Semex At Trec 2005

We describe the SEMEX question-answering system and report its performance in the TREC 2005 Question Answering track. Since this was SEMEX\u27s first year participating in the TREC evaluations, implementation teething pains were expected and indeed encountered. Nevertheless, performance against difficult factoid and list questions was supportive of the question answering approach that was implemented