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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
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
CADE
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
LogAnswer - A Deduction-Based Question Answering System (System Description)
LogAnswer is an open domain question answering system which employs an automated theorem prover to infer correct replies to natural language questions. For this purpose LogAnswer o...
Ulrich Furbach, Ingo Glöckner, Hermann Helbig...
ANLP
1994
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13 years 6 months ago
Acquiring Knowledge From Encyclopedic Texts
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...
Fernando Gomez, Richard D. Hull, Carlos Segami
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. F...