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NAACL
2003
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Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
ACL
2006
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Question Answering with Lexical Chains Propagating Verb Arguments
This paper describes an algorithm for propagating verb arguments along lexical chains consisting of WordNet relations. The algorithm creates verb argument structures using VerbNet...
Adrian Novischi, Dan I. Moldovan
EMNLP
2007
14 years 11 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
EMNLP
2004
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Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
LREC
2008
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Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering
Although answering list questions is not a new research area, answering them automatically still remains a challenge. The median F-score of systems that participated in TREC 2007 ...
Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim