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DKE
2008
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13 years 5 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
ACSC
2006
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Revamping Question Answering with a Semantic Approach over World Knowledge
Classic textual question answering (QA) approaches that rely on statistical keyword relevance scoring without exploiting semantic content are useful to a certain extent, but are li...
Nuno Cardoso, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Joh...
RIAO
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with Semantic Information
This paper presents our experiments in applying semantic information to improve the precision of the information retrieval module in a closed-domain question-answering system. Tha...
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim
TREC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...