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COLING
2002
14 years 10 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
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TREC
2000
14 years 12 months ago
Question Answering in Webclopedia
Eduard H. Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, Mich...
COLING
2002
14 years 10 months ago
Using Knowledge to Facilitate Factoid Answer Pinpointing
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
CICLING
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations
One major problem of state-of-the-art Cross Language Question Answering systems is the translation of user questions. This paper proposes combining the potential of multiple transl...
Rita M. Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-G&oac...
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Investigation of Question Classifier in Question Answering
In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Asli Çelikyilm...