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ERCIMDL
2007
Springer
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14 years 27 days ago
Ontology-Based Question Answering for Digital Libraries
Abstract. In this paper we present an approach to question answering over heterogeneous knowledge sources that makes use of different ontology management components within the sce...
Stephan Bloehdorn, Philipp Cimiano, Alistair Duke,...
TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Question Answering track. We explain the ideas underlying our approaches to the task, report on our results, provide an error analy...
Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Christof Monz, Maa...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 8 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
NAACL
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
NDQA
2003
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13 years 8 months ago
Combining Low-Level and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering
1 While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction ─ to handle ...
Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Diane...