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AIRS
2008
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Junkuo Cao, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, ...
NDQA
2003
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14 years 11 months ago
A Technique to Resolve Contradictory Answers
With the ever-increasing amount of textual information available, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that a single document will provide the answer to a question. A more likely ...
Catherine Blake
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CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñ...
IRI
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months 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-...
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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Syntactic features in question answering
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Xiaoyan Li