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...
— In this paper we propose a new technique allowing to map descriptive data into relative distance space, which is based primarily on senses of the terms stored in our data. We u...
M. Shahriar Hossain, Monika Akbar, Rafal A. Angryk
Polysemy is one of the most difficult problems when dealing with natural language resources. Consequently, automated ontology learning from textual sources (such as web resources) ...
The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of Eu...
In spite of many standards efforts, Web services with similar or compatible functionalities often have heterogeneous semantics. One reason is the disparate ontologies used for ser...
Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, Benit...