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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
CISIS
2009
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Semi-Automatic Annotation System for OWL-Based Semantic Search
—Current keyword search by Google, Yahoo, and so on gives enormous unsuitable results. A solution to this perhaps is to annotate semantics to textual web data to enable semantic ...
C.-H. Liu, H.-C. Chen, J.-L. Jain, J.-Y. Chen
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Information Synthesis for Answer Validation
This report is about our participation in the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE2008). Our system casts the AVE task into a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) problem and uses an ex...
Rui Wang 0005, Günter Neumann
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Solving the Problem of Cascading Errors: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines
The end-to-end performance of natural language processing systems for compound tasks, such as question answering and textual entailment, is often hampered by use of a greedy 1-bes...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew ...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Don't 'have a clue'? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators
Researchers in textual entailment have begun to consider inferences involving downward-entailing operators, an interesting and important class of lexical items that change the way...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee