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COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Question Answering in Webclopedia
Eduard H. Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, Mich...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Using Knowledge to Facilitate Factoid Answer Pinpointing
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
CICLING
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-G&oac...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Investigation of Question Classifier in Question Answering
In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Asli Çelikyilm...