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AIIA
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
NAACL
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
CORR
2002
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Question answering: from partitions to Prolog
Abstract. We implement Groenendijk and Stokhof's partition semantics of questions in a simple question answering algorithm. The algorithm is sound, complete, and based on tabl...
Balder ten Cate, Chung-chieh Shan
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Corpus-based Pattern Induction for a Knowledge-based Question Answering Approach
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
Philipp Cimiano, Michael Erdmann, Günter Ladw...
FLAIRS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Lessons Learned using CBR for Customer Support
Three CBR systems were created to improve customer support at General Electric Appliances. The first tool helped call takers answer customers’ questions by using a case base of ...
William Cheetham