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DKE
2008
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15 years 1 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
EC
2008
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Genetic Algorithms for Data-Driven Web Question Answering
We present1 an evolutionary approach for the computation of exact answers to Natural Languages (NL) questions. Answers are extracted directly from the N
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
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NAACL
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
ECIR
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Web-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering for English and Arabic Questions
Answering multiple-choice questions, where a set of possible answers is provided together with the question, constitutes a simplified but nevertheless challenging area in question ...
Rawia Awadallah, Andreas Rauber
LEC
2002
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Adapting Question Answering Techniques to the Web
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...
Jignashu Parikh, M. Narasimha Murty