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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Classifying What-Type Questions by Head Noun Tagging
Classifying what-type questions into proper semantic categories is found more challenging than classifying other types in question answering systems. In this paper, we propose to ...
Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan, Xiaoyan Zhu
EMNLP
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
CICLING
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Question Answering by Combining Multiple Systems Via Answer Validation
Nowadays there exist several kinds of question answering systems. According to recent evaluation results, most of these systems are complementary (i.e., each one is better than the...
Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-G&oa...
TREC
2003
13 years 9 months ago
QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
AUSDM
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann