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ACL
2009
15 years 11 days ago
Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...
Alexander Mikhailian, Tiphaine Dalmas, Rani Pinchu...
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CLIN
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Query-Based Summarization using Rhetorical Structure Theory
Research on Question Answering is focused mainly on classifying the question type and finding the answer. Presenting the answer in a way that suits the user's needs has recei...
Wauter Bosma
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EMNLP
2007
15 years 4 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
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AI
2002
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
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FINTAL
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Language Independent Answer Prediction from the Web
This work presents a strategy that aims to extract and rank predicted answers from the web based on the eigenvalues of a specially designed matrix. This matrix models the strength ...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann