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EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Constraints Based Taxonomic Relation Classification
Determining whether two terms in text have an ancestor relation (e.g. Toyota and car) or a sibling relation (e.g. Toyota and Honda) is an essential component of textual inference ...
Quang Do, Dan Roth
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Paraphrases and Deferred Sense Commitment to Interpret Questions more Reliably
Creating correct, semantic representations of questions is essential for applications that can use formal reasoning to answer them. However, even within a restricted domain, it is...
Peter Clark, Philip Harrison
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Temporal Expression Normalization with Reference Time Dynamic-Choosing
Temporal expressions in texts contain significant temporal information. Understanding temporal information is very useful in many NLP applications, such as information extraction,...
Xujian Zhao, Peiquan Jin, Lihua Yue
IR
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler