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NAACL
2003
14 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
TREC
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Syntactic Clues and Lexical Resources in Question-Answering
CL Research's question-answering system (DIMAP-QA) for TREC-9 significantly extends its semantic relation triple (logical form) technology in which documents are fully parsed...
Kenneth C. Litkowski
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ACL
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran
75
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CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages
The present article presents the steps involved in the transformation of the TE system that was used in the RTE3 competition in 2007 for the AVE 2008 exercise. We describe the rule...
Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur
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COLING
2002
14 years 9 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...