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JDCTA
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and Extractive Summarization for Clinical Question Answering
This paper presents a hybrid approach to question answering in the clinical domain that combines techniques from summarization and information retrieval. We tackle a frequently-oc...
Dina Demner-Fushman, Jimmy J. Lin
DKE
2008
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13 years 4 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
ACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems
This paper presents a multi-layered Question Answering (Q.A.) architecture suitable for enhancing current Q.A. capabilities with the possibility of processing complex questions. T...
Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Ra...