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CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
The partition semantics of questions, syntactically
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition t...
Chung-chieh Shan, Balder ten Cate
JDCTA
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
A Semantic Approach to Extract the Final Answer in SBUQA Question Answering System
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Mahsa Arab Yarmohammadi
DKE
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns
In this paper, we discuss a novel technique based on semantic constraints to improve the performance and portability of a reformulation-based question answering system. First, we ...
Leila Kosseim, Jamileh Yousefi
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Question classification using support vector machines
Question classification is very important for question answering. This paper presents our research work on automatic question classification through machine learning approaches. W...
Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee
EMNLP
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Investigation of Question Classifier in Question Answering
In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Asli Çelikyilm...