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ANLP
2000
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A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction
This paper discusses an information extraction (IE) system, Textract, in natural language (NL) question answering (QA) and examines the role of IE in QA application. It shows: (i)...
Rohini K. Srihari, Wei Li 0003
ACL
2006
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Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
NLDB
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using Information Extraction and Natural Language Generation to Answer E-Mail
This paper discusses the use of information extraction and natural language generation in the design of an automated e-mail answering system. We analyse short free-form texts and ...
Leila Kosseim, Stéphane Beauregard, Guy Lap...
ACL
2003
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Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...