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CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 11 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
CORR
2004
Springer
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Effects of Language Modeling on Speech-driven Question Answering
We integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and question answering (QA) to realize a speech-driven QA system, and evaluate its performance. We adapt an Ngram language model to...
Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou
AAAI
2004
14 years 26 days ago
PRECISE on ATIS: Semantic Tractability and Experimental Results
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Alex Armanasu, Oren Etzioni, Da...
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a relevant role in several Natural Language Processing tasks. Question-Answering (QA) is an example of such, since answers are frequently name...
Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Va...
CICLING
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz