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SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Question-answering by predictive annotation
We present a new technique for question answering called Predictive Annotation. Predictive Annotation identifies potential answers to questions in text, annotates them accordingly...
John M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Dragomi...
ESWS
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
AquaLog: An Ontology-Portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web
As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
Vanessa Lopez, Michele Pasin, Enrico Motta
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin
ACL
2009
15 years 1 months 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...
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Use of Default Reasoning for Disambiguation Under Question Answering
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...
Boris Galitsky