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DKE
2008
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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
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
TREC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Syntactic Clues and Lexical Resources in Question-Answering
CL Research's question-answering system (DIMAP-QA) for TREC-9 significantly extends its semantic relation triple (logical form) technology in which documents are fully parsed...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
NDQA
2003
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13 years 5 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
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring Syntactic Relation Patterns for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we explore the syntactic relation patterns for opendomain factoid question answering. We propose a pattern extraction method to extract the various relatio...
Dan Shen, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Dietrich Klakow