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PKDD
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
AnswerArt - Contextualized Question Answering
The focus of this paper is a question answering system, where the answers are retrieved from a collection of textual documents. The system also includes automatic document summariz...
Lorand Dali, Delia Rusu, Blaz Fortuna, Dunja Mlade...
DKE
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
FINTAL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
AUSDM
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann