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EMNLP
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering
Shallow semantic parsing, the automatic identification and labeling of sentential constituents, has recently received much attention. Our work examines whether semantic role info...
Dan Shen, Mirella Lapata
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
DKE
2008
104views more  DKE 2008»
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
2001
13 years 6 months ago
The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering
This paper presents an open-domain textual Question-Answering system that uses several feedback loops to enhance its performance. These feedback loops combine in a new way statist...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca,...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic using Kernel Methods
There is a widely held belief in the natural language and computational linguistics communities that Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) is a significant step toward improving important ...
Mona T. Diab, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin