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IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
An alignment-based surface pattern for a question answering system
In this paper, we propose an alignment-based surface pattern approach, called ABSP, which integrates semantic information into syntactic patterns for question answering (QA). ABSP...
Cheng-Lung Sung, Cheng-Wei Lee, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-...
TREC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Ma...
COLING
2002
13 years 5 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...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts Using Minimal Syntactic Analysis
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu
CIT
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using AnsProlog with Link Grammar and WordNet for QA with deep reasoning
Early question and answering (QA) systems focused on keyword search among documents for answers. However, such systems can only answer fact-based questions. It becomes clear that ...
Chitta Baral, Luis Tari