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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Preliminary Work on Classifying Time Granularities of Temporal Questions
Abstract. Temporal question classification assigns time granularities to temporal questions ac-cording to their anticipated answers. It is very important for answer extraction and ...
Wei Li, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Kam-Fai Wong
IR
2010
14 years 7 months ago
FIDJI: using syntax for validating answers in multiple documents
This article presents FIDJI, a question-answering (QA) system for French. FIDJI combines syntactic information with traditional QA techniques such as named entity recognition and t...
Véronique Moriceau, Xavier Tannier
CORR
2002
Springer
85views Education» more  CORR 2002»
14 years 10 months ago
The partition semantics of questions, syntactically
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition t...
Chung-chieh Shan, Balder ten Cate
EMNLP
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
ANLP
1994
105views more  ANLP 1994»
14 years 11 months ago
The Delphi Natural Language Understanding System
This paper presents Delphi, the natural language component of the BBN Spoken Language System. Delphi is a domainindependent natural language question answering system that is soli...
Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow, Robert Ingria, ...