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LREC
2008
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Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions
This paper presents ongoing work dedicated to parsing the textual structure of procedural texts. We propose here a model for the intructional structure and criteria to identify it...
Estelle Delpech, Patrick Saint-Dizier
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Corpus-based Pattern Induction for a Knowledge-based Question Answering Approach
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
Philipp Cimiano, Michael Erdmann, Günter Ladw...
LREC
2010
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Evaluation Protocol and Tools for Question-Answering on Speech Transcripts
Question Answering (QA) technology aims at providing relevant answers to natural language questions. Most Question Answering research has focused on mining document collections co...
Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Sop...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
I4E: interactive investigation of iterative information extraction
Information extraction systems are increasingly being used to mine structured information from unstructured text documents. A commonly used unsupervised technique is to build iter...
Anish Das Sarma, Alpa Jain, Divesh Srivastava
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das