Advances in Open Domain Question Answering
Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of today’s most exciting technological developments. It has all the markings of a disruptive technology, one that is
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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 32 Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Véronis, Université de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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Advances in Open Domain Question Answering Edited by
Tomek Strzalkowski University at Albany, SUNY, NY, U.S.A.
and
Sanda Harabagiu University of Texas at Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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ISBN 978-1-4020-4745-9 (PB) ISBN 978-1-4020-4744-2 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-4746-6 (e-book)
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CONTENTS
Contributors
ix
Preface
xv
Introduction
xxiii
PART 1: Approaches to Question Answering
1
D. MOLDOVAN, M. PAŞCA AND M. SURDEANU SOME ADVANCED FEATURES OF LCC’S POWERANSWER
3
ABRAHAM ITTYCHERIAH A STATISTICAL APPROACH FOR OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING
35
JOSE L. VICEDO AND ANTONIO FERRÁNDEZ COREFERENCE IN Q&A
71
PART 2: Question Processing
97
SANDA M. HARABAGIU QUESTIONS AND INTENTIONS
99
TOMEK STRZALKOWSKI, SHARON SMALL, HILDA HARDY, PAUL KANTOR, WU MIN, SEAN RYAN, NOBUYUKI SHIMIZU, LIU TING, NINA WACHOLDER AND BORIS YAMROM QUESTION ANSWERING AS DIALOGUE WITH DATA
149
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B. GRAU, O. FERRET, M. HURAULT-PLANTET, C. JACQUEMIN, L. MONCEAUX, I. ROBBA AND A. VILNAT COPING WITH ALTERNATE FORMULATIONS OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 189 PART 3: Question Answering as Information Retrieval
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L. GRUNFELD AND K.L. KWOK SENTENCE RANKING USING KEYWORDS AND META-KEYWORDS
229
CHARLES L. A. CLARKE, GORDON V. CORMACK, THOMAS R. LYNAM AND EGIDIO L. TERRA 259 QUESTION ANSWERING BY PASSAGE SELECTION DRAGOMIR R. RADEV, HONG QI, ZHIPING ZHENG, SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN, ZHU ZHANG, WEIGUO FAN AND JOHN PRAGER 285 QUERY MODULATION FOR WEB-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING PART 4: Answer Extraction
305
JOHN M. PRAGER, JENNIFER CHU-CARROLL, ERIC W. BROWN AND KRZYSZTOF CZUBA QUESTION ANSWERING BY PREDICTIVE ANNOTATION
307
ROHINI K. SRIHARI, WEI LI AND XIAOGE LI QUESTION ANSWERING SUPPORTED BY MULTIPLE LEVELS OF INFORMATION EXTRACTION 349 ABDESSAMAD ECHIHABI, ULF HERMJAKOB,
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