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COLING
2010
13 years 22 days ago
Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
DEXAW
2007
IEEE
138views Database» more  DEXAW 2007»
14 years 2 days ago
Machine Learning for Question Answering from Tabular Data
Question Answering (QA) systems automatically answer natural language questions in a human-like manner. One of the practical approaches to open domain QA consists in extracting fa...
Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de ...
BMCBI
2008
185views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Mining clinical relationships from patient narratives
Background: The Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF) project has built a system to extract clinically significant information from the textual component of medical records in order...
Angus Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, ...
ISCI
2007
142views more  ISCI 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic passage segmentation based on sentence topics for question answering
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Myung-Gil Jang