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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling Semantic Relevance for Question-Answer Pairs in Web Social Communities
Quantifying the semantic relevance between questions and their candidate answers is essential to answer detection in social media corpora. In this paper, a deep belief network is ...
Baoxun Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Chengjie Sun, Bingquan...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 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
TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations
Many researchers have used lexical networks and ontologies to mitigate synonymy and polysemy problems in Question Answering (QA), systems coupled with taggers, query classifiers,...
Deepa Paranjpe, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sumana Sriniv...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...