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NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
NAACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering
Recent TREC results have demonstrated the need for deeper text understanding methods. This paper introduces the idea of automated reasoning applied to question answering and shows...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda M. Harabag...
NDQA
2003
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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
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
CL Research’s question-answering system for TREC 2003 was modified away from reliance on database technology to the core underlying technology of using massive XML-tagging for p...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions
For the TREC-style questions, the query terms we get from the original questions are either too brief or often do not contain much relevant information in the corpus. It will be v...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang