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DKE
2008
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13 years 7 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
NAACL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions
We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based comb...
John D. Burger, John C. Henderson
NAACL
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system ar...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
NDQA
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Issues in Extraction and Categorization for Question Answering
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...
David Eichmann
CLEF
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa...