The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation

The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2006 is aimed at evaluating systems able to decide whether the responses of a Question Answering (QA) system are correct or not. Since most of the questions and answers contain entities, the use of a textual entailment relation between entities is studied here for the task of Answer Validation. We present some experiments concluding that the entity entailment relation is a feature that improves a SVM based classifier close to the best result in AVE 2006.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera, Felisa Verdejo
• Keywords: Answer Validation, Answer Validation Exercise, CLEF 2006, Entailment Relation, Information Management