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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
AUSDM
2007
Springer
118views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2007»
13 years 11 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
NDQA
2003
131views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 6 months ago
Panel on Web-Based Question Answering
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Dragomir R. Radev
TREC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
LREC
2008
89views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Development and Alignment of a Domain-Specific Ontology for Question Answering
With the appearance of Semantic Web technologies, it becomes possible to develop novel, sophisticated question answering systems, where ontologies are usually used as the core kno...
Shiyan Ou, Viktor Pekar, Constantin Orasan, Christ...