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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 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...
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 8 months ago
QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Self-learning web question answering system
While being quite successful in providing keyword based access to web pages, commercial search portals, such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and AOL, still lack the ability to answer...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
LREC
2008
103views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
A Question Answering System for German. Experiments with Morphological Linguistic Resources
Question Answering systems are systems that enable the user to ask questions in natural language and to also receive an answer in natural language. Most existing systems, however,...
Florian Koehler, Hinrich Schütze, Michaela At...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...