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CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 8 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
DKE
2008
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13 years 4 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
LOGCOM
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Testing the Reasoning for Question Answering Validation
Question Answering (QA) is a task that deserves more collaboration between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Representation (KR) communities, not only to introduce r...
Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Valen...
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
MACAQ : A Multi Annotated Corpus to Study how we Adapt Answers to Various Questions
This paper presents a new corpus of human answers in natural language. The answers were collected in order to build a base of examples useful when generating natural language answ...
Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Sophie Rosset, Anne Vilnat
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Paragraph Acquisition and Selection for List Question Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Creating more fine-grained annotated data than previously relevent document sets is important for evaluating individual components in automatic question answering systems. In this...
Fang Xu, Dietrich Klakow