JAVELIN

JAVELIN is an open-domain question answering system developed at CMU.

• Context:
  • It assumes that open domain QA is a complex multi-faceted task that requires extensive planning to determine the optimal QA strategy.
  • It seeks universal auditability
  • It uses utility-based information fusion.
  • Team members included: Eric Nyberg, Jamie Callan, Jaime Carbonell, Bob Frederking.
• See: Question Answering Task.

---

---

References

• http://mu.lti.cs.cmu.edu/moin/Javelin_Project

2003

• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1073427.1073437
• Nyberg, E., T. Mitamura, J. Callan, J. Carbonell, R. Frederking, K. Collins-Thompson, L. Hiyakumoto, Y. Huang, C. Huttenhower, S. Judy, J. Ko, A. Kupse, L. Lita, V. Pedro, D. Svoboda and B. Van Durme. (2003). “The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategy Approach with Dynamic Planning", Proceedings of the 12th Text REtrieval Conference, November 2003 (TREC 2003)
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ehn/JAVELIN/papers/javelin/CMUJAV_nb_TREC03.pdf

2002

• (Nyberg et al., 2002)

---